With a reported nine commercial ships hijacked over the past 12 days – including a spectacular strike on a Saudi Arabian oil supertanker – the world has become captivated by pirates. Specifically, a loose band of some 1,500 freebooters drawn from Somalia’s ranks of unemployed fishermen and hardscrabble Islamic militias by the lure of easy money and, one can only assume, a life of high adventure. (More)
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Hello,use your brain,pirates hijack because they know that,notone will do nothing about,but pay them,whatever they ask for.but if all those countries act in appropiate way,they will not pay them anny money,they will go and use the military,and destroy them,and there will not be more hijacks or kidnaping again,so,i am say use you brain.those kidnaper,they had nothing to loos or to win,so kill them,