telegraph.co.uk - 11/19/2008
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A British ship has escaped being hijacked by Somali pirates who launched attacks following their capture of a Saudi supertanker.
timesonline.co.uk - 11/12/2008
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timesonline.co.uk —
Pirates caught redhanded by one of Her Majesty
s warships after trying to hijack a cargo ship
off Somalia made the grave mistake of opening fire on two Royal Navy assault craft packed with commandos armed with machineguns and SA80 rifles. In the ...
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Royal Navy in firefight with Somali pirates
timesonline.co.uk - 11/19/2008
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timesonline.co.uk —
Somali pirates struck again yesterday, seizing an Iranian
cargo ship holding 30,000 tonnes of grain, as the
world s governments and navies pronounced themselves powerless against this new threat to global trade. Admiral Michael Mullen, the US ...
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Iranian grain ship seized as Somali pirates hold world ...
online.wsj.com - 11/25/2008
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online.wsj.com —
It's a safe bet, dear reader, that the
title of this column has caused you to either
(a) roll your eyes and wonder, What century do you think we're living in? or (b) scratch your head and ask, Yes, why don't we? Wherever you come down, the question ...
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Bret Stephens: Why Don't We Hang Pirates Anymore?
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The Corner on National Review Online —
... worth of crude a few hundred miles off the Kenyan coast, an attack that sharply increases the stakes in an effort by governments and militaries to protect the world's energy-supply lines. U.S. Navy officials said the hijacking was unprecedented for its distance from shore and the size of its target a ship about the length of a U.S. aircraft carrier. The attack appears also to be the first significant disruption of crude shipments in the region by pirates. And from Wednesday's Daily Telegraph : The British tanker Trafalgar was suddenly surrounded in the Gulf of Aden by at ...
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Theo Spark —
... ship seized as Somali pirates hold world to ransom. Time to start bombing the bastards in their home ports. The profits are going to terrorists and theirfore they are perfectly legal targets. Hijacked supertanker anchors off Somali coast as pirates open talks over their $100m oil haul... and demand a $10m ransom. The Saudi's will probably cough up. India 'sinks Somali pirate ship'. And the Indians show how it's done. Somali pirates try to seize British ship. Time to arm merchant ships in the area with ...
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