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| Somali pirates' Pakistan link confirmed |
| 2011-08-30 |
| It is now official: Somali pirates are being trained in Pakistan to carry out a proxy war against India. Though Indian security agencies had been hinting at a Pakistani link to Somali pirates for long, material evidence to support this assertion has been recently recovered. The evidence was obtained from nine foreign nationals caught from a hijacked Iranian vessel - MV Nafis-1, by the Indian Navy 170 nautical miles off Mumbai on August 14. The vessel was brought to Porbandar on August 15 and those arrested - five Yemenis, two Tanzanians, one Kenyan and one Somali national - were handed over to Porbandar police for interrogation. Gujarat customs officials had seized a large quantity of food items from the vessel and also found that rice packets and juice pouches bore names of Pakistani companies with addresses written in Urdu. Gujarat customs officials also recovered two AK-47s, a pistol and a cache of foreign currency including $ 86,000 and 1,500 Saudi Riyals. Officials seized bags full of tea leaves, which customs officials believe, were chewed by the pirates to stay awake. "On several occasions we seized weapons and magazines from pirates or hijacked ships in Indian waters. These weapons bore the stamp of Pakistani ordnance factories. In this case, the guns have no label but the food items are packed and manufactured in Pakistan. Smugglers are not generally found carrying such a large amount of foreign currency," said a senior customs official. |
| Posted by:Eohippus Phater7165 |
| #7 India's has reached its "MAHAN" moment of strategic = geopol decision??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-08-30 23:05 |
| #6 Iff the INDIAN NAVY is all focused on deterring or countering China in the West Indian Ocean, what will India have to counter the Pirates and their steadily-getting-closer-to-Indjuh arc of pirate activities??? CURRENT + ANTICIPATED RISE IN MALAY-INDONESIAN = SE ASIAN PIRACY NOTWITHSTANDING. As perhaps best illustrated by .... * BHARAT RAKSHAK > INDIA DEVELOPS COLD FEET IN [naval]TALKS WID JAPAN, US, espec as per Vietnam + ASEAN + South China Sea disputes wid China. * SAME > INDIA MAY DISAPPOINT VIETNAM IN SOUTH CHINA SEA DISPUTE. ARTIC(S) = INDIA = argued that it is UNREALISTIC to expect it to act like a MAJOR/GLOBAL NAVAL POWER GIVEN ITS PRESENT ECON + FINANCIAL CONDITION. IOW, INDIA AT PRESENT IS WILLING TO BASE[Vietnam] + SEND ITS ARMED WARSHIPS INTO THE SOUTH CHINA SEA JUST A LONG AS IT ACTUALLY DOES N-O-T HAVE TO MIL CONFRONT CHINA + PLAN. D *** NG IT, NOT, NOT - spelled K-N-U-T/ G-N-O-T - NOT! That sound you hear is Rising China + PLA, PLAN laughing; + China-fighting VIETNAM not knowing whether to laugh like Beijing or cry for ally Indjuh being a naval wuss - THE FORCE = CURRY IS NOT STRONG WID INDIA??? Moreso given wannabe India's .... * BHARAT RAKSHAK > TO COUNTER CHINA, INDIA NEEDS TO DO [serious = regional, geopol] NAVAL DIPLOMACY, ostensibly from the West Indian Ocean to the many small Islands = Island Nations of the SOUTH PACIFIC [SOPAC, SWPAC]. * VARIOUS > INDIA TO HAVE BALLISTIC MISSLE DEFENSE IN 2014. * INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > INDIA PM [Mahoman Singh]: INDIA CAN HAVE THIRD-LARGEST [global] GDP BY 2025, at present growth rates. GLOBAL-SUPERPOWER WANNABE "RISING INDIA" = RISING CHINA = ITS NOT GOING TO MEAN A DAMN THING IFF IT CANNOT PROJECT MILPOL, ECON POWER ANDOR DEFEND ITS INTERESTS. MAHA-RUSHIAN HISTOIRE' = NO ORGANIZED NATION-STATE OR CIVILIZATION HAS EVER BECOME A "GREAT POWER" BY BEING REGIONALLY, TRANS-, OR GLOBALLY ISOLATIONIST. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-08-30 23:00 |
| #5 Forget it, Jake. It's...Pakistan. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2011-08-30 16:35 |
| #4 Isn't that an act of war? Along with all the thousands of others against India and against the US, I suppose so. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-08-30 16:26 |
| #3 It'd also be interesting to see where the money trail goes. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2011-08-30 15:23 |
| #2 Somali pirates are being trained in Pakistan to carry out a proxy war against India. Isn't that an act of war? |
| Posted by: Steve White 2011-08-30 14:52 |
| #1 Officials seized bags full of tea leaves, which customs officials believe, were chewed by the pirates to stay awake. Ummmmmmm...they ain't "tea leaves", boys. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2011-08-30 14:23 |