Related: Slow Saturday Special: Suddenly Somalia
Slow Saturday Special: Quick Stop in Somalia
Third time is a charm, right?
"Security forces repel 4 hijacking attempts off Somalia’s coast" by Katharine Houreld, Associated Press | March 6, 2010
NAIROBI - Signaling a new offensive mind-set, international military officials vowed yesterday to fight pirates as swarms of Somalis moved into the waters off East Africa. Four shoot-outs with pirates showed that high-seas attacks are intensifying with the end of the monsoon season.
Which goes to show you that these guys are being protected by the West as much as anything else or else they would have been eradicated anyway (not buying bulls*** western excuses anymore, sorry).
And what monsoon season? Newspaper never said a word the whole time.
Nearly half the 47 ships hijacked off Somalia last year were taken in March and April - the most dangerous months of the year for ships in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean.
In the most serious skirmish yesterday, six pirates attacked a vessel before breaking off and chasing the French fishing boat Torre Giulia, said Commander John Harbour, spokesman for the European Union Naval Force.
A French military detachment onboard a nearby ship fired warning shots at the pirates. The ship then approached the skiff and collided with it, sinking the skiff and throwing the pirates into the water. Four were rescued, but two others were missing, Harbour said.
A spike in attacks is likely in the coming weeks, said Harbour. This season, though, ship owners and sailors are more prepared to evade pirates, fight back, or they have armed security onboard, raising the likelihood of violence.
And CUI BONO there, 'eh, reader$?
“We know the monsoon is over. We know they’re coming. We’re taking the fight to the pirates,’’ said Harbour.
Crews are successfully repelling more attacks, making it harder for pirates to capture ships and earn multimillion dollar ransoms. In turn, the Somali gangs are increasingly turning violent....
In a second incident yesterday, the EU Naval Force intercepted a pirate group of one mothership and two skiffs that had attacked a separate French vessel. That attack was also repelled by military personnel onboard.
Have the French done something wrong to incur such wrath?
In the third and fourth attacks, pirates assaulted two Spanish tuna fishing boats off the coast of Kenya, Spain’s Ministry of Defense said.
I assume Spain is a target because of the possible war crimes charges and investigation of USrael.
A spokesman said the boats had contacted Spanish Navy forces in the area, who dispatched a plane. Between the air support and the private guards on the boats, they repelled the attack.
It's each country for itself over there, 'eh?
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BRUSSELS - A NATO destroyer sank a pirate mothership in the Indian Ocean off the Somali coast after allowing the crew to leave, the alliance said yesterday.
That's because they are working for CIA.
Shona Lowe, an antipiracy spokeswoman, said the HDMS Absalon - the Danish flagship of the three-vessel NATO flotilla in the region - disrupted a pirate operation by “scuttling’’ one of the large boats Somali gangs used to transport attack teams to piracy hunting areas far off the coast.
The mothership was fired on and sunk after its crew members were transferred to a smaller boat in tow, which was allowed to return to the mainland, she said.
“NATO is not in the business of firing at skiffs with pirates in them,’’ Lowe said in an interview from NATO’s naval headquarters in Northwood, near London.... The action occurred Sunday in the Indian Ocean, not the adjacent Gulf of Aden, where most pirate attacks take place.
Piracy in the region soared as the rule of law crumbled in Somalia and organized criminal gangs ramped up the lucrative business of boarding ships in the Gulf of Aden or the Indian Ocean - one of the world’s busiest sea lanes - and holding them, their crews, and cargos for ransom....
How can that be AFTER the WORLD COMMUNITY began PATROLLING THOSE WATERS, hmmm?
NATO maintains a three-ship flotilla, which also includes the frigates USS Boone and the British HMS Chatham, to fight the pirates. The European Union has a separate, six-ship squadron in the region as part of its antipiracy mission, known as Operation Atalanta, as do other nations such as the United States, India, Russia, and China....
Yeah, those "pirates" sure are crafty to outwit the entire world.
One wonders why pirates are not active in every sea lane in the world, huh?
I mean, if the global government can't patrol the Gulf of Aden, how are they going to secure the rest of the world?
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Nothing about the DAILY ATTACKS that kill civilians or the STARVING SOMALI REFUGEES, 'eh, MSM?
Sigh.
