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Saudi super-tanker taken to Somali pirate lair A.K.A THE GREATEST HEADLINE EVER
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 | Labels: links, pirates | 0 comments »
MOGADISHU (AFP) — A hijacked Saudi super-tanker, carrying 100 million dollars of oil, anchored Tuesday off a notorious Somali pirate port as sea gangs struck again and seized a Hong Kong cargo ship.
The biggest act of piracy yet by the marauding Somali bandits has stunned the international community. The Saudi Arabian foreign minister called piracy a growing "disease" and experts said few ships are now safe in the Indian Ocean.
Bile Mohamoud Qabowsade, an advisor to the president of Somalia's breakaway state of Puntland, said the Sirius Star was now at the pirate lair of Harardhere, some 300 kilometres (180 miles) north of Mogadishu.
"We have been receiving some information and we now know that the ship is anchored near Harardhere," Qabowsade told AFP.
The super-tanker with its crew of 25 -- 19 from the Philippines, two from Britain, two from Poland, one Croatian and one Saudi -- and loaded to capacity with two million barrels of oil was seized on Saturday, according to the US Navy.
The biggest act of piracy yet by the marauding Somali bandits has stunned the international community. The Saudi Arabian foreign minister called piracy a growing "disease" and experts said few ships are now safe in the Indian Ocean.
Bile Mohamoud Qabowsade, an advisor to the president of Somalia's breakaway state of Puntland, said the Sirius Star was now at the pirate lair of Harardhere, some 300 kilometres (180 miles) north of Mogadishu.
"We have been receiving some information and we now know that the ship is anchored near Harardhere," Qabowsade told AFP.
The super-tanker with its crew of 25 -- 19 from the Philippines, two from Britain, two from Poland, one Croatian and one Saudi -- and loaded to capacity with two million barrels of oil was seized on Saturday, according to the US Navy.
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