More Piracy Near Somalia

[AdamG]

Pirates 'putting lives at risk'
4 days ago

The lives of millions of Somalians could be in jeopardy as pirates and robbers threaten aid supplies.

That's the stark warning from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). It said more than half the population of the troubled African country could need urgent food assistance by the end of the year if naval escorts are not found to protect food ships soon.

France, Denmark and the Netherlands were providing escorts but the WFP has received no further commitment from them since June.


http://ukpress.google.com/article/AL...eFxVmnhLfUy0sg

[Entropy]

I'm not sure if this has been posted before, but here you can get some pretty cool maps showing Somalia piracy.

[Stan]

Just finished watching the evening news where Estonian midshipman Ardo Kalle returned home and indicated that the scrawny pirates were ranked by the weapons they carried.

"You could tell who were in charge as they were armed with Russian Kalashnikovs versus those with Chinese-made AKs"

According to Ardo, the 40-day ordeal aboard the German cargo vessel Lehmann Timber ended shy of the one million ransom, as the food on board had long run out, and even the pirates wanted out !

Jeez, go figure