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2005-04-06 International-UN-NGOs

Weekly Piracy Report - 29 March to 4 April 2005

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Posted by Pappy 2005-04-06 12:59:20 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Tickâ¦ tickâ¦ tickâ¦ tickâ¦ tickâ¦ tickâ¦

Posted by Steve from Relto 2005-04-06 10:02:19 AM|| 2005-04-06 10:02:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 vicinity of One Fathom Bank, Malacca Straits. Pirates armed with guns and knives boarded a bulk carrier underway. If you want to block the Malacca Straits through which 40% of the world's oil passes, then One Fathom Bank is the best place to do it.

Posted by phil_b 2005-04-06 10:14:53 AM|| 2005-04-06 10:14:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 They stole a life raft and escaped.

Assuming that this is a run-of-the-mill life raft, how in the phuque could they have escaped???

Seems to me that an air patrol would be the best solution, and A-1 Skyraiders would probably fit the bill nicely.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-04-06 10:55:56 AM|| 2005-04-06 10:55:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Life rafts are encased in capsules. They go for a decent price on the black market.

The Singaporeans are engaged in air patrols. It's the Indonesians and Malaysians that have problems. Like Indonesia's military and police corruption, ineffectiveness, highly possible participation and cooperation with the pirates. Both have a general distrust of other nations combined with extreme sense of sovereignty. Oh, and a long-simmering territorial dispute.

One cannot ingnore that there is also a significant sympathy with the fundamentalist groups who have taken up piracy and kidnapping as a fund-raising tactic.

Posted by Pappy 2005-04-06 9:11:09 PM|| 2005-04-06 9:11:09 PM|| Front Page Top

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