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Monsoon season ends November making it easier for more attacks.
Feb 22, Somali pirates capture American couple Jean and Scott Adam seattletimnes.nesource.com
Jan 21, Hostage taking on the rise icc-ccs.org
Military and Aerospace has an article on the latest pirate attach deterrents.
Cruise Ship Spirit of Adventure, avoids pirates attach cnn
Dec. 2010 Somali pirates venture away from home news.asiaone.com
Somali Islamic group captures pirate base and vows to take control of the region dailymail.co.uk
23, Feb. 2020 Pirates reduce ransom amount for British couple dailymail.co.uk
6, Feb.2010 Sailors fear job loss more than pirates
6, Feb. 2010 Somali Pirates Seize Libyan Vessel. newyorktimes.com
6, Feb.10 Somalia: Danish Soldiers Foil Pirate Takeover
3, Feb. 2010 Somali pirates hijack North Korean cargo ship Washington Post
29, Jan.10 UN: Anti-piracy Measures Help In Bringing Down Successful Pirate Attacks rttnews.com
22, Jan.10 A British man held hostage by Somali pirates has said his captors have threatened to kill him or his wife “within four or five days” if they do not receive a ransom. thehindu.com
Turkish frigate to set sail for Gulf of Aden in Feb worldbulletin.net
21, Jan. 10 Rival Somali pirates exchange gunfire before oil tanker is released dallasnews.com
18, Jan. 10 Enriched by Record Ransom, Somali Pirates Free Tanker NYTimes.com
17, Jan, 2010 Pirates taking pot shots at each other over the Greek oil tanker. UKReuters
Turkish navy rescues Indian ship from Somali pirates. news.yahoo
12/6/09 Tanker hijacked by pirates covered in war risk market, Greek-owned Maran Centaurus, a 1,085-foot supertanker hauling an estimated 2 million barrels of oil to New Orleans.
12/6/09 Pirate Payoffs Feed Big-Money Lifestyle in Somalia
11/30/09 Five British sailors taken hostage in Iran dailymail.co.uk
11/18/09 Pirates Attack Maersk Alabama Again .nytimes.com
10/27/09 Two executed by Somali insurgents irishtimes.com,
7, October, 2009 Somali pirates strike ... but at the wrong ship.watoday.com.au
24, September, 09 Was the cargo ship Arctic Sea really hijacked by pirates? guardian.co.uk
7, September,09 Somali govt detains hostages freed by pirates. google.com. ap
and How diaspora funds Somali pirates businessdailyafrica.com
and Somali pirates 'demand $20 mln' for Turkish ship google.AP
6, September,09 Plane with 37 pirates held in Nairobi nation.co.ke
5, September, 09 Missing channel pirate ship carried Russian arms for Iran timesonline.co.uk
and High-tech swashbuckling battle: Drones set to fight pirates on high seas newyorkdailynews.com
20 August,09 Arctic Sea crew, hijackers interrogated in Moscow google.com
19, August,09 EU, Kenya Somali-Pirate Treaty ’Violates Rights’, Lawyers Say bloomberg.com
14 August,09 Egyptian fishermen escape from Somali pirates reuters.com
14 Aug, 09 Missing pirate ship shows up 400 nautical miles off one of the islands of Cape Verde.dailymail.co.uk
13 August, 09 Baltic bandits. Hunt for the Maltese flagged 4,000-tonne vessel, Artic Sea. Missing ship may have secret cargo. Russian navy fleet and two nuclear submarines have been scrambled as efforts intensified to locate the vanished ship Arctic Sea and its 15-strong Russian crew. Something's got the Russians on edge for a ship with just lumber!
Friday, 24 July, 09 According to reports, it was boarded by up to 10 professional armed men purporting to be anti-drugs police , looking for cocaine. Some 12 hours later, the intruders apparently left the ship on a high-speed inflatable boat and allowed the vessel to continue on its passage but with its communications equipment damaged.
28 July, 09 Last known contact was with British Coastguard's by radio as the Artic Sea was about to enter the Strait of Dover from the North Sea at 1.52pm on July 28.
Days later Interpol informed British Coastguard that the ship had been hijacked in the Baltic Sea.
30 July, 09 Last picked up by AISLive ship tracking system off the coast of Brest, northern France, just before 1.30am on July 30
.Mikhail Voitenko, editor of Russia's Sovfracht maritime bulletin, said the ship, carrying about £1 million-worth of sawn timber from Finland to Algeria, might have been targeted because it was also loaded with an unknown cargo.
He told the Russia Today news channel: "The only sensible answer is that the vessel was loaded secretly with something we don't know anything about. We have to remember that before loading in Finland the vessel stayed for two weeks in a shipyard in Kaliningrad. I'm sure it cannot be drugs or illegal criminal cargo. I think it is something much more expensive and dangerous."
2 August, 09 Pirates return Malaysian tug boat int.iol.co.za
/28/09 Armed bandits attack ship on the Amazon River examiner.com
7/25/09 Monsoon weddings for sailors timesofindia.indiatimes.com
7/24/09 Turkish commandos capture 5 pirates off Somalia google.com
7/16/09 Russia offers to work with NATO in pirate patrols: officials .google.com
7/3/09 Danish-owned merchant ship, the CEC Future bbcnews
6/24/09 MV MARATHON released against ransom, and death of sailor finally confirmed. ECOTERRA Australia.to and Breaking: Japanese sailor safe! australia.to
6/22/09 Portuguese warship foils Somalia pirate attack and captures eight pirates! google.com/hostednews/afp/
3 June, 2009 Royal Navy captured Somali pirate gang after cat-and-mouse chase across Indian Ocean. Dailymail.uk
2 May, 2009 Somali Pirates Strike Again
By VOA News Somali pirates have hijacked a British cargo ship in the Indian Ocean.
26 APRIL, 2009 Italian Cruise ship MSC Melody shoots on pirates. telegraph.co.UK
12 April, 2009 Easter Sunday, captain freed, AOL
The Maersk Alabama's capture by Somali pirates theguardian
Richard Phillips captain
8 April, 2009 US ship hijacked by pirates, but American crew takes back ship. Foxnews
7 April, 2009 Somali pirates back in action, seize 5 ships, Bloomberg.com
Nov 08 Yemen, Sanaa, Cruise ship outrun two boatloads of pirates! The 30,000 ton cruise ship Oceania Nautica faced gun fire! The pirates got within 300 yards of the cruise ship. Evasive maneuvers and increased speed helped the tourist vessel escape.
12/1/08 CAPTURED BY PIRATES, SHIP CAPTAIN RECOUNTS ORDEAL worldblog.msnbc.msn.com
11/26/08 Did India's navy sink a pirate ship or just a trawler? blogs.usatoday.com
11/25/08 SOMALI pirates have hijacked a Yemeni ship (MV Adina) loaded with steel, officials said on Tuesday, and one of Asia's biggest shippers said it was diverting vulnerable vessels away from the dangerous Gulf of Aden. news.com.au
18 Nov 08 Indian navy destroys pirate boat, more ships taken nation.co.ke
18 Nov. 08 Hijacked Saudi tanker reaches Somalia swissinfo.ch
13 Nov 08 Yemeni boat , Somali coast, By the time the Royal Marines boarded the pirates’ vessel, the enemy had lost the will to fight and surrendered quietly. The Royal Navy described the boarding as “compliant”. timesonline.co.uk
10/21/08 KUALA LUMPUR: Armed pirates seized an Indian dhow over the weekend with 13 sailors aboard off the coast of Somalia, a maritime watchdog said on Tuesday. dailytimes.com
9/26/08 Nairobi - Pirates have seized a Ukrainian cargo ship carrying tanks off the coast of Somalia, a maritime official confirmed on Friday. Carrying military equipment, including tanks. .int.iol.co.za
9/24/08 SOMALI pirates this morning captured a Sinotrans bulk carrier, just hours after the seizure of a Greek ship of the same vessel type in Somali waters. lloydslist.com
9/11/08 SOMALI pirates hijacked a South Korean cargo ship with 21 crew on board yesterday but failed in an attempt to seize a Greek vessel in the Gulf of Aden dispatch.co.za
5 July 08, UK, Cheers as Lively Lady returns home. Portsmouth Evening News
6/27/08 pirates attacked a passenger boat coming from Bonny to Port Harcourt, killing two and taking others away alive. thetidenews.com
6/20/08 Philippines, Sultan Kudarat, suspects drew his gun and ordered the passengers to disembark and leave behind their belongings, including their goods. GMANews.TV.
6/14/08 Thousands flee Bakassi, for fear of counter attacks. africanpress.wordpress.com
6/11/08 Suspected pirates have conducted an attack on a Cameroonian military patrol in the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula, "While approaching a fishing vessel and during docking, a group of heavily-armed pirates operating from the adjacent land opened fire on the military boat," said the statement without giving any further details. full article china view
10 June 08 Pirate attack warning at Anambas Islands, A total of five attacks has been reported for the Area around Anambas Island, South China Sea since 24.03.2008 in the following positions : 02:52.5N-105:11.0E, 03:13.0N-105:26.0E, 03:16.18N-105:26.68E, 03:24.6N-105:31.5E, 02:36.8N-105:9.9E. Pirates in speedboats armed with Guns and long knives are attacking vessels and targeting vessel’s cash and properties. All vessels are advised to maintain a vigilant, 24 hrs, anti - piracy watch both visually and on radar while transiting these waters. Report all sightings of suspicious boats.
3 June 08 Yemen HODEIDA, June 03 (Saba) - About 29 Yemeni fishermen have come back to the country after being held in an international sea passage by Eritrean pirates, the GPC-run almotamar.net reported.Local sources in the province of Hodeida said the Eritrean pirates had held the fishermen along with four boats.They took away three boats and put the fishermen on the fourth to come back home.
In May, Eritrean pirates seized five Yemeni fishing boats in the Red Sea. The governor of Hodeida Salim al-Jabali then ordered the competent authorities to recover the boats as soon as possible. Furthermore, Yemeni fishermen suffer from baseless confiscation of their boats in international waters by Eritrean coastguards. sabanews.com
June 1, The Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ganiyu Adekeye said that with the arrival of the first batch of the boats by the end of this month, the battle scenario will change and the pirates and oil thieves would no longer have a hiding place. sunnewsonline
5/21/08 Hijacked ship MV Victoria was the third case of hijacking in five months near the Somalian coast with 10 Indians has been located off Somalia, near Hobyo, around 500 km from the country's capital Mogadishu. No demands from hijackers yet. The ship was carrying around 4,200 metric tonnes of bagged sugar and had left Mumbai a month ago with a crew of 21 comprising Indians, Bangladeshis, Pakistanis and Burmese. Times of India
4 May 08 Nigeria:Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) Diebu Creek Flow Station was on Friday night blown up by militants operating along the creeks of Southern Ijaw Local Government area of Bayelsa State, causing a massive oil spillage along the waterways. attack on the heavily guarded facility was said to have caught the soldiers deployed to protect it unawares as they were easily overrun by the militants who were said to have come in five speed boats. allafrica
Nigeria: Making of Navy's Made-in-Nigeria Warship alafrica
4/28/08 Nigeria, Attach at Bonny Island, leaving five policemen, including two inspectors and one constable dead in their trail. thetideonline
4/25/08 Zimbabwe: A Chinese state owned cargo 'Ship of Shame' is carrying 77 tonnes,three million rounds of assault rifle ammunition, 3 000 mortar rounds and 1 500 rocket-propelled grenades, according to its inventory, published in South Africa.was refused unloading in Durbhan, S. Africa. left there and was refused entrance to Namibia and Angola allafrica
4/23/08 Somalia, Hijacked Dubai ship is rescued boston.com
Pirates surrender after French hostages freed
Friday 11 April 2008
Paris - The 30 crew members of the French sailing ship Le Ponant, taken hostage off the coast of Somalia a week ago, have been released by their captors. Shortly afterwards, six of the pirates gave themselves up to the French authorities; they have now been arrested and placed on board a French navy ship that had been standing by in case action needed to be taken. In a statement, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the release of the hostages, and the surrender of the six pirates, had been accomplished without bloodshed.
The ship was seized by the pirates last week in the Gulf of Aden, between Somalia and Yemen. They then sailed it to the Somali coast and, because most of crew were French, began negotiations with the French government.3/24/08 Nigeria, THE Joint Task Force (JTF) Operation Flush Out III, yesterday killed four suspected sea pirates and arrested one other, during a fierce gun duel around Isaka, close to Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. Bandits, who were sailing in two speedboats,had seized a barge and tugboat and were trying to escape with it spotted the military men who had been patrolling the Bonny-Port Harcourt waterways after a series of reported piracy attacks, decided to open fire on them! He said the bandits had last Friday hijacked a barge and a tugboat loaded with petrol and taken them to Alakin River. During the fierce shooting that ensued, the military's superior firepower was able to sink the two speedboats, killing four of the bandits.
5 April, Yemen denies French yacht kidnapped in territorial waters. Yemen said that the French yacht kidnapped by Somali pirates on Friday in the Arab Sea has been hijacked away of Yemen's territorial waters.
Security sources were quoted by the state-run almotamar.net as saying the Yemeni coastguard forces did not receive SOS nor a notice that the yacht was being attacked by the pirates.Ships are usually attacked in the Arab Sea by pirates, most of whom are Somalis. Yemen's coastguard forces along with the international coalition forces stationed there sometimes, however, intercept those pirates who run away at most.
SANA'A, April 05 (Saba) – Yemen said that the French yacht kidnapped by Somali pirates on Friday in the Arab Sea has been hijacked away of Yemen's territorial waters.
3/18/08 Philippines, passenger boat left Mauban port at around 4 a.m. and sailed towards Polillo with 10 passengers on board. While cruising the seas off Cagbalete island in Mauban, two of the passengers armed with a shotgun and handgun declared a holdup and subsequently shot the victims. newsinfo.inquirer.net
3/20/08 A fierce gun battle was reported, yesterday, between naval men of the JTF in the Niger Delta and suspected sea pirates along the Bonny Channel in Rivers State allafrica
3/19/08 AN Irish engineer, held captive, hostage for over a month by sea pirates off the coast of Somalia, was released unharmed yesterday morning after a substantial ransom was paid. The breakthrough finally came yesterday when it is understood that a ransom of $700,000 (about €450,000) was brought to the vessel by another ship.Telegraph.co.uk
3/13/08 Nigeria: Pirates Seize Julius Berger's Barge, 5 Workers per allafrica
3/13/08 International worker's union wants the waters to be declared a war zone, ships cook shot through the belly per VOA news
3/11/08 India, Defense Minister warns of terror attacks from sea. per NDTV
4 June 08 Family members of the 25 Indian crew who disappeared with cargo ship MV Rezzak in the Black Sea in February have pointed out loopholes in the Indian maritime regulator’s interim report, which says the ship has sunk and was not hijacked. livemint
4 March MV Rezzak went missing in the Black Sea since February 18.
India on Tuesday did not rule out the possibility of the missing ship with 25 Indian crew on board being targetted by sea pirates.
Kuala Lumpur-based International Maritime Board (IMB) is a nodal agency that monitors crime, taking place in the international sea. It gets information about incidents of sea piracy around the world.''All angles are possible,'' senior DG Shipping official said. The vessel had left Russia for Turkey on February 17 carrying steel billets. The voyage time is about 24 hours. Mumbai-based Pelican Marine recruited the crew for the ship. Its Director Santhosh Biswas however ruled out the possibility of pirates targeting the ship.''I don't think it is hijacked. There is no sea piracy in European waters,'' he claimed. The ship is owned by a Turkish national and registered in Panama. The authorities in Panama are holding an investigation into the missing ship.
3/3/08 Lagos, Nigeria:- Very dangerous situation. Protest chronicled losses, human and materials, occasioned by series of pirate attacks on ship vessels carrying fish and other goods.On the last count, NTOA said that the association has lost billions of naira worth of goods and services in the last one year. The spate of piracy attack in this country is becoming alarming, the Nigerian coast at the moment, should be ranking the most dangerous in the whole world. In January this year alone, we recorded a lot of attacks, and lost about five lives in just two days. Sea Captains refuse to sail.per read full article allafrica.com
11/17/07 Kenya, Nairobi:- Comoran-flagged cargo ship captured by pirates off the Somali coast last month, raising fears of the crew safety, a maritime monitoring group said on Saturday. 22 mostly Asian crew members on board, was seized on October 19 as it sailed to Mogadishu port from the United Arab Emirates port of Dubai. Japanese tanker, Golden Nori -- believed to be carrying benzene -- that was kidnapped on October 28 with 23 crew members from Myanmar, Philippines and South Korea. Their condition is unknown. per AFP
10/26/2000, KUALA LUMPUR -- The Malaysian marine police have crushed a gang of foreign pirates believed to have staged 30 high-sea heists involving over RM1 million (S$459,000) worth of cash and goods. Gang was believed to have robbed 19 merchant ships and 11 local fishing boats. per hartford-hwp.com/archives
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are attacking sea vessels in record number. passenger boats hijacked,
passengers shot, fierce gun battles in Niger delta. Dangerous situations.
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