Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of people:Five of the Somali pirates who released a hijacked oil-laden Saudi supertanker drowned with their share of a reported $3 million ransom after their small boat capsized, a pirate and a relative of one of the dead...
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Hostility to the SEC aside, I am obligated to cheer for the Wildcats. Go Cats! Beat the Pirates! Or at least escort them to a suitable third country for prosecution!
The PLAN is using its anti-piracy mission as an opportunity to learn:Stratfor, a private intelligence agency based in the United States, said in a report that a Chinese antipiracy patrol.
The Iranians have joined the anti-piracy brigade: Iranian state radio says Iran has sent a warship to the coast of Somalia to protect its cargo ships against piracy.The Saturday report says the ship arrived in Somali waters.The Iranian ship would join vessels from the U.S.,...
Matt and Spencer greet the news that China will contribute to anti-piracy efforts with a bit of faux surprise; the motivating concept behind the most recent Maritime Strategy and its.
It's not nice to hold people hostage for two and a half months:"Some crew members on the Ukrainian ship are misbehaving," the pirate said."They tried to harm two of our.
Douglas Burgess argues that piracy is, in a legal sense, the same as terrorism. Galrahn correctly argues that this formulation produces more questions than it answers. John Burnett argues that the answer to Somali piracy is to take active steps to return the ICU to...
Yoav Gortzak and I have a piece on piracy and the European Union up at Foreign Policy.
Matt Duss and I diavlog away, touching upon such subjects as piracy, the Clash of Civilizations, turkey, the Sound of Music, and Matt's prospects for replacing Alan Colmes:
The International Association of Independent Tanker Owners thinks that a blockade of Somali ports would be more effective against pirates than shipping escort. The European Community Shipowners Association thinks that air and cruise missile attacks on pirate bases would be even more effective. And the...
I have another piece on piracy up at Comment is Free. And while we're on the subject, recall that David Axe is heading to Somalia in order to interact with.
Kenneth Anderson proposes Q-ships to solve the problem of piracy:There are many legal questions here, of course. But I had a conversation with a US Navy officer, not a lawyer,.