Puntland Admits Pirates and Security Forces the Same

[Mintid Farayar]

Boats seized off Somalia for illegal activities: Puntland official

 

19 April 2009

12:52 PM

Agence France Presse

English

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2009 All reproduction and presentation rights reserved.

 

Somalia's breakaway state of Puntland claimed Sunday that three vessels reportedly captured by pirates were rather seized by local security forces for illegal offshore activities.

 

"The reason they were seized is completely different than that of piracy," Sanag governor Mohamud Said Nur told AFP by telephone, referring to an Italian tugboat and two Egyptian fishing boats seized earlier this month.

 

"We have confirmed the Italian boat is tugging two containers of toxic waste and they were planning to dump it in our waters, so we need justice for their wrongdoings," he said, adding no ransom had been demanded for its release.

 

"The two Egyptian boats were also illegally fishing off our coasts and they must be brought to justice as well," he said.

 

The Italian and Egyptian vessels were respectively captured in the Gulf of Aden and off the coast of another breakaway region, Somaliland.

 

The Puntland governor's remarks came as NATO naval ships foiled yet another pirate attack, this time on a Norwegian tanker, after a dramatic overnight chase in the Gulf of Aden.

[Meiji]

LOOL

 

So what are they Pirates or boat-Militia's?

[Che -Guevara]

Just where in the article they do admit that pirates and local security are the same?

 

Stop distorting the article!

[Pilgrim]

Mintid Farayar - more rubbish! Admin, this poster has started a number of threads which seek to push a personal agenda.

[NASSIR]

Mintid is becoming too desperate and clownish.

Keep distorting the content of the article.

 

As for the three ships held in Sanaag, there is a lot of evidence of toxic waste by the Italian tugboat and acts of illegal, pirate fishing by the Egyptians, that were discovered by the locals.

This evidence will be forwarded and even access will be given to any technical fact finding team, preferably from the UN.

[AYOUB]

^^ You are in denial, as usual.