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NAIROBI, Kenya -- The European Union's anti-piracy naval force says Somali pirates have seized a cargo vessel with 24 crew members aboard.
The owners of MV Polar confirmed early Saturday that pirates control the ship, the EU force said in a statement. Pirates seized the Liberian-owned ship some 684 miles east of the Indian Ocean island of Socotra. It belongs to Yemen but is close to the tip of northeastern Somalia. The ship has 24 crew members: one Romanian, three Greek nationals, four Montenegrins and 16 Filipinos. Somali pirates usually seize ships using the Gulf of Aden, one of the world's busiest waterways. They earn multimillion dollar ransoms with little risk because Somalia has not had an effective government for 19 years. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/10/30/somali-pirates-seize-cargo-ship-aboard-1230496049/ The fleet patrolling those waters needs to be doubled or even tripled. We should also send dummy boats manned and filled with Military Personnel to lure and arrest pirates. After a few of them pirates will get weary and it will work as a deterrant. |
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