Bossaso port booms with business - report with PICS

[dhulQarnayn]

Originally posted by Norf 1:

I suppose DQ has not heard of the term 'international waters'?

Norf 1, sir, I'm well aware of what international waters are. However, your blind insinuation that MY pirates hi-jack vessels roaming international waters, is well... a load of rubbish hokum.

 

All I ever said was that, any foreign vessel caught pillaging our fish and dumping waste in Somalia's Exclusive Economic Zone(EEZ) should be fined. I never said we had any business messing with ships in international waters. So don't get it twisted kid!

 

Hopefully this map will show you the difference.

 

 

 

dhulQarnayn :cool:

Republic Of California

[N.O.R.F]

Blind did you say?

 

Somali pirates hijack another Malaysian vessel

30 Aug 2008 11:57:38 GMT

Source: Reuters

(Adds Malaysian shipowner statement)

By Daniel Wallis

NAIROBI, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Heavily armed Somali pirates have seized another Malaysian tanker in the latest such attack in the waters off the Horn of Africa country, a maritime official said on Saturday.

"We believe it's a Malaysian bulk carrier and it was hijacked last night," Andrew Mwangura, head of the Kenya-based East Africa Seafarers' Assistance Programme, told Reuters.

In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian national carrier MISC said its ship was the hijacked vessel. The tanker, Bunga Melati 5, was carrying 30,000 tonnes of petrochemicals and heading towards Singapore from Yanbu in Saudi Arabia

 

It had 36 Malaysians and five Filipinos on board when it was hijacked in international waters off the coast of Yemen.

 

"MT Bunga Melati 5 was sailing within the vicinity of the designated security corridor. The vessel attempted evasive manoeuvring before being overpowered by the hijackers," it said.

"The coalition (naval) forces within the vicinity were alerted but were unable to prevent the hijacking as safety of the crew onboard is of priority," it said.

Lawlessness is spreading fast onshore as Somalia collapses into the worst fighting for two nearly decades. That is fuelling a wave of piracy that increasingly threatens vessels using the Gulf of Aden, one of the world's most important waterways.

Somali gunmen have hijacked at least 30 ships in the area so far this year. Last week, they seized four in 48 hours, and are now holding about 130 crew hostage on at least eight vessels from Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, Germany, Nigeria and Iran.

 

The piracy is also hampering aid shipments to Somalia, worsening a humanitarian crisis, and the increase in attacks has forced Western navies to take action to protect shipping.

Nearly 20,000 ships pass through the Gulf of Aden each year, heading to and from the Suez Canal.

This week a Djibouti-based coalition anti-terrorism unit, Combined Task Force 150, set up a Maritime Security Patrol Area or safe corridor that navy warships will roam while coalition aircraft fly overhead.

 

Somalia's interim government and its Ethiopian military allies have been fighting Islamist insurgents since the start of last year. The fighting has killed more than 8,000 civilians and driven a further 1 million from their homes.

(Additional reporting by Jalil Hamid in Kuala Lumpur)

Source

 

Do you still justify this primitive act?

[N.O.R.F]

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/13/business/pirates.php

[dhulQarnayn]

^^^bullocks!!! Now go find me some more links.

 

dhulQarnayn :cool:

Republic Of California

[Som@li]

It seems the pirate industry is bring far more money than Bosasso port could do.

 

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Somali pirates release German, Japanese ships: maritime group

13 hours ago

 

NAIROBI (AFP) — Somali pirates have released a German-operated ship and a Japanese tanker seized last month, a Kenyan maritime organisation said Thursday.

 

The German's Antigua and Barbuda-flagged MV BBC Trinidad and Japanese MT Irene were seized on August 21 off the unpatrolled Somali coast, said Andrew Mwangura of the Kenyan branch of the Seafarers' Assistance Programme.

 

"As of now, we have confirmed that the two ships have been released by the pirates," he told AFP from the port town of Mombasa.

 

The MV BBC Trinidad, which was held in the northeastern Somali fishing village of Eyl, has a 13-member crew: a Slovenian captain, 10 Filipinos and two Russians.

 

"We have got information that 1.1 million dollars was paid for the release of the German ship," said Mwangura, adding that the freighter is headed to Muscat.

 

Mwangura said the MT Irene, which had 16 Filipinos and three Croatians, was freed from the same village a day after a group of Japanese arrived in Nairobi to boost efforts to release the tanker.

 

"We have reports that they brought ransom and were coordinating its payment," he added.

 

Sources close to the pirates in the northern Somali breakaway state of Puntland told AFP that a ransom of 1.5 million dollars was paid for the Japanese vessel but the information could not immediately be confirmed.

 

According to Somali officials and several maritime organisations, Somali pirates are currently holding several foreign ships hostage off the coast of the troubled Horn of Africa country.

 

Maritime experts say many attacks go unreported along Somalia's 3,700 kilometres (2,300 miles) of largely unpatrolled coastline infested by pirates, who operate high-powered speedboats and carry heavy machine guns and rocket launchers.

 

In June, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution authorising foreign warships to enter Somalia's territorial waters with the government's consent to combat pirates and armed robbery at sea, but it is yet to be implemented.

 

In recent months, a multinational taskforce based in Djibouti has been patrolling parts of the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, where a pirate mothership is believed to be operating.

 

Some pirates have justified their actions by claiming that, in the absence of a functional central authority in Somalia, they were battling illegal fishing and toxic waste dumping by foreign countries.

 

Somalia has been without an effective central authority since the 1991 ouster of former president Mohamed Siad Bare set off a deadly power struggle that has defied more than a dozen peace initiatives.

[N.O.R.F]

^^Don't make DQ proud now.

[dhulQarnayn]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

i'M RICH BIATCH !!!

 

dhulQarnayn :cool:

Republic Of California

 

p.s

Norf,dahabshiil intee kuusoo dhigaa saaxiib?

[N.O.R.F]

^^I don't need your worthless dollar saxib

[dhulQarnayn]

^^c'mon man! Am feeling charitable right about now. So xawilaadee kuu dhow?

 

dhulQarnayn :cool:

Republic Of California

[AYOUB]

YEMEN: 29 bodies found on Yemen beach - MSF

Posted to the Web Sep 11, 03:46

 

 

SANA - YEMEN: "We were 120 people, overcrowded; the trip took two days. We did not receive food, nor water. Some of us were placed in the hull. Several people died because of asphyxia, some others were thrown overboard, among them two children. In order to intimidate us, they beat us heavily with their belts. One of the smugglers threw petrol on us and showed off his lighter."

A Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team found eight dead bodies yesterday, September 9, on the beach of Wadi Al-Barak, in Yemen, 30 kms east of Ahwar. These people, refugees and migrants who had escaped from conflict and extreme poverty in the Horn of Africa, were trying to cross the Gulf of Aden. During the rest of the day, 21 more dead bodies were washed up on the coast, raising the total death toll to 29. According to the survivors' accounts, 10 more people died during the trip.

At 4.30 a.m., the MSF team was alerted to a new arrival on the coast, the seventh in nine days. When the team reached the beach, they found a group of survivors and eight dead bodies. The survivors told MSF staff that the boat arrived in the middle of the night and stopped far from the coast, in deep waters. The passengers were forced, with extreme violence, to jump into the water. Most of the people who died did not know how to swim.

The survivors explained that the smugglers were extremely brutal during the trip. According to their testimonies, up to 10 people died during the journey: several people were asphyxiated and three, including two children, were thrown into the sea by the smugglers. About 120 people were in the boat at the beginning of the journey.

According to a 23 years-old Somali refugee from Mogadishu:

"The smugglers promised us in Bossaso [somalia] that we would be transported to Yemen in small groups with new fast boats, and with proper food and water. However, the boat was an old one. They pointed at us with their weapons and forced us to jump inside. We were 120 people, overcrowded; the trip took two days. We did not receive food, nor water. Some of us were placed in the hull. Several people died because of asphyxia, some others were thrown overboard, among them two children. In order to intimidate us, they beat us heavily with their belts. One of the smugglers threw petrol on us and showed off his lighter."

After being given first aid on the beach, the refugees went to the Ahwar Reception Centre (ARC), where MSF teams provided medical assistance and counselling.

"With the previous six boat arrivals, people had been treated humanely by the smugglers," said Alfonso Verdú, MSF Head of Mission in Yemen. "We thought that the trend might have changed, until today. The horrific cases of 2007 are being repeated again. People have been through terrible things. One woman lost her three young children. A young Ethiopian witnessed his 70 year-old father being thrown into the sea at night, and only recovered his dead body the next morning.

"The majority told us that they had no option but to flee from the violence exerted against them in Somalia and Ethiopia, even though they knew about the danger of the trip. We were expecting a massive arrival of refugees and migrants - the 2008 figures are double those of 2007. But it is clearly not only the numbers that are increasing: the violence has tripled since the beginning of September."

MSF started its project in September 2007, providing medical and humanitarian assistance to refugees and migrants arriving at the Yemeni coast of Abyan and Shabwa Governorates. During 2008, MSF has provided assistance to over 3,800 people, 580 of them in September.

In June 2008, MSF released a report entitled "No Choice" to document the conditions of the perilous journey and to call for an increased in the assistance for the thousands of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants fleeing their home countries.

 

SOURCE: MSF

 

http://www.puntlandpost.com/englishnewspage.php?articleid=3839

[General Duke]

Lool. People calm down the pirates got another $1.1 million in pay... damn.

[dhulQarnayn]

^^^Yo duke, c'mon mayn, lets get the gudah yo!

 

I'm working on an anthem for the pirates...here goes a part of it...lol

 

"It was just like takin' candy from a baby

Cause we couldn't resist it from the very start

We had those ships around our little fingers

No trouble at all to tip toe to all that dough

This money is making us loose our heads completely

Oh how it swept us off our feet just one, two, three

It was just like takin' candy from a baby

Cause we couldn't resist it from the very start"

 

 

dhulQarnayn :cool:

Republic Of California