NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama on Wednesday for the second time in seven months, though private guards on board the U.S.-flagged ship repelled the attack with gunfire and a high-decibel noise device.
A U.S. surveillance plane was monitoring the cargo ship as it steamed on to its destination.
Pirates hijacked the Maersk [...]
The Guardian:
Somali pirate ransoms ‘could fund terrorists’
Nato adviser criticises government for not fully investigating whether pay-off would fund Islamist groups including al-Qaida
A senior Nato adviser on piracy has criticised the government for failing to investigate adequately whether ransom payments to Somali pirates fund Islamist groups including al-Qaida.
Lord Jopling, who also wrote a report into money [...]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Somali pirates exchanged fire with a French fishing vessel on Wednesday and after speeding away were later stopped and detained by Spanish and German naval units, said the European Union anti-piracy force.
Cmdr. John Harbour, a spokesman for the force, said pirates in two skiffs fired on the French vessel about 350 [...]
Monday Update: Continued due to weekend site shutdown for server migration.
You’ll need an Amazon.com account to log-in here, so if you have one, great, if not it’s easy to set up, and if you’d rather use a different method, there is the snail mail, and at least one other system which will be set up [...]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Somali pirates holding a hijacked ship off the coast of Somalia fired at a U.S. Navy helicopter as it made a surveillance flight over the vessel, the first such attack by pirates on an American military aircraft, the Navy said Thursday.[...]The copter was flying on Wednesday over a Taiwanese-flagged [...]
The Missouri post at the top of the Featured Stories is a perfect example. ACTIVISTS are travelling all across the country on special operations. We are meeting and planning with resistance leadership throughout the union. We are working behind the scenes in ACTIVE planning for the broader strategy needed for the next [...]
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Using machetes and guns, the men fought a desperate battle to take control of two boats off the Somali coast. But this time, it wasn’t pirates who launched the attack—it was Egyptian fishermen who had been held hostage for four months and who killed two brigands and took others captive as they [...]
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MOUNT PLEASANT, Wis. (AP) - The owner of a southern Wisconsin house might not be in love with the Oscar Mayer wiener right now.
