Pirates threatened to kill their American hostage, Capt. Richard Phillips, if U.S. forces attacked them, according to a Somali who has been in contact with the pirates, who are in a lifeboat within sight of a U.S. warship about 320 kilometres off the coast of Somalia. The U.S. was bolstering its force by dispatching other warships to the site off the Horn of Africa, where a U.S. destroyer shadowed the lifeboat carrying Phillips. He was taken hostage in the pirates' failed effort to hijack the cargo ship Maersk Alabama on Wednesday. The pirates' strategy is to link up with their colleagues, who are holding Russian, German, Filipino and other hostages, and get Phillips to lawless Somalia, where they could hide him and make it difficult to stage a rescue, the Somali said. That would give t...
On one side are the eight navies, the world's largest shipping companies, the rich Gulf states that need to get their oil to market, and the great powers, whose commerce depends heavily on the shipping lanes around the Horn of Africa. On the other side are a few thousand Somali pirates in small boats with light weapons. So why are the pirates winning? The colloquial term for the members of any such boarding party is "hostages." Back in the early 18th century, when the pirates of the Caribbean -- the REAL pirates of the Caribbean, not Johnny Depp and Keith Richards -- were finally being eliminated by the navies of the major European powers, there was no such foolishness. Pirates were defined as "enemies of all mankind," and there was a right of "universal jurisdiction" against them. Has ...
The population of Somalia is facing serious food shortages and the world food program has indicated that current food stocks in Somalia will be depleted by mid-August," [Peter MacKay] said in a prepared statement. "I had a discussion with the secretary general of NATO, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, about the potential for Canada to participate. Suffice as to say we are part of a relatively small number of countries capable of providing this type of escort, and the decision was taken then to participate.
... a Halifax-based frigate to waters off the horn of Africa to prevent pirates from attacking food s...
TUESDAY started as just another day off the Horn of Africa. The freighter Almezaan was beating its way toward Mogadishu when pirates, operating off the Somali coast, tried to board he...
Capt. Richard Phillips was in "imminent danger" of being killed before U.S. Special Operations forces shot the pirates in an operation personally approved by President Barack Obama, U.S. officials said. I'm just the byline. The real heroes are the navy, the [Seals], those who have brought me home," Phillips said by phone to Maersk Line president and CEO John Reinhart, the company head told reporters. A photo released by the navy showed Phillips unharmed and shaking hands with the commanding officer of the USS Bainbridge "This was an incredible team effort, and I am extremely proud of the tireless efforts of all the men and women who made this rescue possible" Vice-Admiral Bill Gortney, commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, said in a statement. He called Phillips and his crew "h...
... and Somali pirates in a lifeboat far off the Horn of Africa. U.S. officials said a fourth pirate had...
Roger Middleton, a London-based piracy expert, said it's common for warships to disarm then free brigands because they rarely have jurisdiction to try them.
... -- NATO forces rescued 20 fishermen from pirates who launched the latest attack in the Gulf of Aden... of stopping the piracy scourge in the Horn of Africa, where sea bandits also seized a Belgian...
When Osama bin Laden issued a rambling audio recording of his views on Somalia earlier this year, the new authorities in the country's capital, Mogadishu, laughed hard. Bin Laden's thinking on this utterly failed state in the Horn of Africa seemed out of touch, even patronizing. Yet only a few months after Somalia's latest "transitional" government was set up amid a rare burst of albeit cautious optimism, Somali radicals linked to al-Qaida are gaining strength, while moderate Islamists, such as the country's new president, Sharif Ahmed, are losing ground. When Ethiopia invaded Somalia with American encouragement in 2006, the aim was to fend off any kind of Islamist threat to Ethiopia and to catch the handful of al-Qaida people sheltering in the country. The invasion and the ensuing air ...
... of cash from taxes, from the profits of pirates, from extortion and from donations by Arabs and So...
Somali pirates understand one thing and only one thing, and that's force," said Capt. Joseph Murphy, a professor at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy and the father of a sailor aboard the Maersk Alabama the first time it was hijacked in April.
... international flotilla of warships off the Horn of Africa, maritime figures indicate the number of...
We had spent 51 days at sea in a row," said the ship's captain, Cdr. Craig Baines. "As you can imagine the crew needed a bit of a rest, and we needed to reposition while we were there. Winnipeg's namesake ship is part of a NATO fleet including ships from Spain, Portugal and the United States, all warding off pirate activity in the Gulf of Aden. An estimated 20 of the 240 people on board the Canadian ship hail from Manitoba.
...After four days on dry land in the Horn of Africa, the crew of HMCS Winnipeg is back at se...
Surgeons from the Cincinnati Eye Institute implanted the custom-made device Thursday into the right eye of seven-year-old Nathaniel Brantley of Cincinnati. Surgeon Michael Snyder says if all goes well he'll operate on Nathaniel's left eye in a month or so. REYKJAVIK, Iceland -- Police have fired pepper spray at hundreds of protesters who stormed a police headquarters in Iceland. About 500 people crowded into the plaza Saturday where John F. Kennedy was shot 45 years ago, all agreeing it was right to remember a pivotal moment in U.S. history, even if they didn't all believe the official line.
Pirates release oil tanker. ATHENS, Greece -- Officials in...-tonne MV Genius in the Gulf of Aden near the Horn of Africa, waters that have become highly dangerou...
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