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It seems a regular thing on the North-East coast of Somali

Somali pirates yesterday seized a Saudi supertanker carrying up to 2m barrels of oil worth around $100m in an audacious attack several hundred miles out to sea. Two Britons are among the 25 crew of the Sirius Star, which was captured 450 miles south-east of the Kenyan port of Mombasa. The US navy, which has been tracking the ship, said last night it was close to anchoring in the notorious pirate haven of Eyl on Somalia's north-eastern coast. "Both the size of the vessel and the distance from the coast where the hijackers struck is unprecedented," said Commander Jane Campbell, a spokeswoman for the US Fifth Fleet, based in Bahrain. "It shows how quickly the pirates are adapting." Another spokesman, Lieutenant Nate Christensen, said: "We don't know the condition of the crew on board or the nature of the pirates' demands. In cases like this what we typically see is a demand for money from the ship owners but we haven't had that yet. We don't know exactly where they are taking it but we know the town of Eyl is a pirate stronghold." Eyl is in the northern Puntland region of Somalia and has become notorious for pirate activity.
Sirius-Star-ship-001.jpgFull storyhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/18/piracy-somalia
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Thun you got it twisted still, the practice maybe the same but they have got mod cons, weapons, tactics etcIt's just when you hear the word 'pirate' these days, it just evokes old skool images/views of black beard/parrots & scenes from pirates of the caribbean etc

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I know they aint got eye patches and aint got swords like Sinbad but from when you hijacking international ships and other countrys aint really on it you know some of the people are desperate. I hope that country gets the help it needs.
Do you think piracy doesn't exist all over the world? It hasn't become any less profitable in the centuries and millennia that it first came about. There's no reason that it would be a relic of antiquity, or a preserve of desperate and backwards people. Modern piracy is a hi-tech, $15billion-a-year industry. sh*t goes on everywhere.
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It come like Somalia aint realised its 2008 and still think we are living back way in the 1500's.
dumb comment coming from someone who I beleive generally knows his stuff
BahahahaThun is a one trick pony and that trick only scores 6 from the judges. Not even a send.Ratings to them man holding up the age-old trade. Much better than shottin drugs to mums and yutes, f*ck*ng up where people live. People on the ship will get over it, one day
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