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2008-10-03 Africa Horn

'Biggest suspect' in ship piracy arrested

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Posted by Fred 2008-10-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Pirates need shore facilities, both for themselves and their ships, and for moving the loot.
Has to start someplace.

It's getting worse. There was a raid on a town in Nigeria recently, going after banks. Colonial towns with ocean connections had fortifications against pirates, not necessarily on account of war with another nation.

Posted by Richard Aubrey">Richard Aubrey 2008-10-03 08:19|| 2008-10-03 08:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe this is the staw that breaks the camel's back. I hope they use this incident to dismantle the pirates' organization.

Posted by Chunky Elmaviling9135 2008-10-03 09:43|| 2008-10-03 09:43|| Front Page Top

#3 I posted the Somalia piracy incident map the other day. It shows the incidents and the havens. Strafe the boats and ports as a free introductory offer. More incidents, level the place. End of story. We have the means, not the will. Remember the Barbary pirates.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-10-03 11:27|| 2008-10-03 11:27|| Front Page Top

#4 The police, themselves, said they suspected Mwangura having found him to be the first to inform the media outlets

Wondered why the pirates had the AP on the line.

Posted by Danielle 2008-10-03 12:27|| 2008-10-03 12:27|| Front Page Top

#5 This is pretty laffo hilarious. Andrew Mwangura is cited in just about every Somali piracy news article in the past couple of years.

Posted by Plastic Snoopy 2008-10-03 14:05|| 2008-10-03 14:05|| Front Page Top

#6 Are they going to make him walk the plank?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-10-03 14:15|| 2008-10-03 14:15|| Front Page Top

#7 Sounds possibly like he ticked off the wrong people:

The gangs, [Mwangura] says, are masterminded by crimelords in Dubai and Nairobi who monitor shipping routes for lucrative targets. They pass directions on to as many as five pirate gangs who pay a "licence fee" to Somali politicians or clan elders.

Posted by Pappy 2008-10-03 18:11|| 2008-10-03 18:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Wonder what the RAB'S TAD budget looks like? These crimelords need to be introduced to the 3am interrogation.

Posted by USN,Ret. 2008-10-03 20:42|| 2008-10-03 20:42|| Front Page Top

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