The Irish Times By Rob Crilly in Nairobi July 15, 2009www.irishtimes.com FORGET CUTLASSES, cannon and peg legs. Modern pirates armed with rifles and rocket-propelled grenades are enjoying a bumper year. Attacks around the world more than doubled in the first six months of 2009, according to a new report by the International Maritime Bureau (IMB), [...]
Pirates of the Gulf
International Herald Tribune November 18, 2008Over the weekend, Somali pirates undertook their most daring mission to date – seizing the MV Sirius Star, an oil supertanker owned by Saudi Aramco. Seized some 450 nautical miles off the coast of Kenya, this brazen act represents a major threat to both the world’s energy security as well [...]