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[Global News Blog Headlines] Southeast Asia - Thai troops deport 4000 Hmong to Laos ...: LONDON - A British-flagged cargo ship and a chemical tanker from Singapore have both been hijacked by pirates in the perilous waters off the coast of Somalia, officials said Saturday. Repatriation of Hmong from camp in N.Thailand to Laos going .

[RedState] links for 2010-01-01 - Erick's blog - RedState: Fire the would-be tyrants who are trying to take away our right to a government of, by, and for the people. Somali pirates seized an Indonesian chemical tanker on Friday with 24 crew members in the Gulf of Aden, a maritime watchdog reported.

[africa comments] africa comments: Somalia thread for the week ending November 15: One intriguing thing I wonder in the light of both today’s post, and yesterday’s post on colonial racism and paternalism, is the affection of today’s British public and academics for paternalistic and state-led theories of development somehow related to the British colonial past? As compared to the lack of sympathy for such theories among the American public and academics, when America lacks much of a colonial past and traditionally criticized colonialism?

[National Post - Posted] Today in piracy: Somali pirates extend their range - Posted: The European Union naval force EU Navfor told Reuters that the 23,709 tonne Greek cargo ship Filitsa was hijacked today in the south Somali Basin, some 400 nautical miles northeast of the Seychelles; around 1,000 nautical miles east of the Somali capital Mogadishu, equaling the longest range Somali pirate attack to date.

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[The Lede] Off Somalia, There Be (Lots of) Pirates - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com: I think those pirates some of them they deserved to attack ships crossing the ocean because, in somalia they don’t have a powerful coast guards to defend their fishing people. Reality, there are some times foreign ships wants for shipping without a permission and some times they destroy small boats of local people who are fishing in their coast and kill lots of them, I believe these people are looking for a revenge but last attack on WFP Vessel I believe it was absuletly a mistake, may be they were thinking to show the world the reality.

[Bossip] Five U.S. Men Try to Join the Jihad | Bossip.com: and i have to put it this way…the only reason why america is so powerful today…well imagine Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Indonesia, Jordan,Syria, Lebanon, Somalia, Mali, Morrocco, Libya, Sudan, Algeria…were to unite and work towads a common goal as muslims…there wouldnt be a Unted States of America son…but because all these countries governments are hyrpcrites who act like they are muslism but really are satanic worshippers and feed the US, they sell each other out…reminds me of the african slavery…mind slaves is what its called nowadays…

[CNBC Top News and Analysis] Latest Business News Wires - Business Headlines - CNBC.com: Former President Bill Clinton's charity drew an international roster of donors last year, ranging from Norway and Oman to foreign lotteries, businessmen and celebrities, a contributor list released under an ethics promise by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton showed.

[SWJ Blog] 21 December SWJ Roundup (SWJ Blog): If the talks that resulted in an imperfect deal to combat global warming provided anything, it was a glimpse into a new world order in which international diplomacy will increasingly be shaped by the United States and emerging powers, most notably China. Friday's agreement, sources involved in the talks said, boiled down to President Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao personally hammering out a pact both could live with, even if many other leaders could not.

[USNI Blog] RPG's vs fire hoses: place your bets | USNI Blog: Throughout the history of piracy, and written about as far back to Roman times, .So, those flagged ships that do not defend themselves, or as we saw recently with the Spanish, come from nations that have a habit of paying ransom, one would think that the pirates would target those ships and nations.

[Cricketdiane's Weblog] Somali pirates taking merchant ships as it suits them ...: This is the farthest Somali pirates have travelled to hijack a ship, and is far south of the  Maritime Security Patrol Area  patrolled by international warships in the Gulf of Aden.[104] Sirius Star’s captors threatened that the ship would face  disastrous  consequences if a US$25,000,000 ransom was not paid, though they have agreed to accept US$15,000,000 to release the ship.[105]January 11, 2009. The body of a Somali pirate who drowned just after receiving a huge ransom washed onshore with $153,000 in cash, a resident said Sunday, as the spokesman for another group of pirates promised to soon free a Ukrainian arms ship.

[Freakonomics] High-Seas Piracy and the Great Recession - Freakonomics Blog ...: Canal traffic has been especially hard hit, in part because of the $600,000 toll the Canal charges for passage, and partly because of piracy. Aside from ransoms and skyrocketing piracy insurance rates, shippers routinely pay their crews double, as hazard pay, whenever they pass by the Horn of Africa.

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