year of the pirate

polystyle

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scottdisco

rip this joint please
Who would have thought there would ever be a story about a 'pirates arrival in NYC' ...
Was he brought here legally ?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/nyregion/22pirate.html?hp

yeah Polystyle, i was meaning to post about this the other day, it's a mad one; crucial question you raise, cheers.

his moms has had some interviews with the Beeb and such too, i think about three different interviews, including with their Somali service.

interesting times!
 

massrock

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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."

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090813/tuk-missing-ship-may-have-secret-cargo-6323e80.html

That's a bit weird and ominous isn't it. I wonder what would make him say that? Perhaps it's just opportunism on the part of pirates.
 
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