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| Somali pirates hijack Yemeni ship |
| 2008-11-25 |
| Somali pirates have hijacked a Yemeni cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden, a regional maritime group said on Tuesday, a day after sources said the gang holding a Saudi Arabian supertanker were demanding a $15 million ransom. Andrew Mwangura, coordinator of the Kenya-based East African Seafarers' Assistance Programme, identified the Yemeni vessel as the MV Amani. Few other details were immediately available. "We were just informed the Amani had been taken," Mwangura told Reuters from Mombasa. "But it had been out of contact for about four days, so it is not known exactly when it was seized." |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #4 Actually, Yemen has been cleaning up its act for the past several years - LOTS of dead Islamofascists in the past 5 years. I really do not understand why the West is tolerating this pissant rerun of the Berber Pirates - last time, it took a junior lt and some Marines to clean it up. |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2008-11-25 18:33 |
| #3 Somalia and Yemen - it's that red-on-red? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-11-25 13:32 |
| #2 Ya know, we have a pretty nice navy. Maybe we should get into this pirate thing. Good money and it's not like the rest of the world will like us any less. |
| Posted by: Hellfish 2008-11-25 12:21 |
| #1 And the pirate's business model continues to perform rather well. Better than our stock market, heh. However, there are so many golden eggs in the goose you can get out before you squeeze it to death. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2008-11-25 11:14 |