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Success for Somali pirates as they venture further afield

by Marcus Hand, Singapore — last modified Jan 12, 2010 07:44 AM

SOMALI pirate attacks have reached an alarming 50% success rate in hijacking vessels since the end of the monsoon season, according to the International Maritime Bureau (IMB).

An alert by the IMB’s piracy reporting centre said that within a few weeks it had received reports of 17 attacks, including eight successful hijackings, off the coast of Somalia and around the Seychelles and Madagascar.
“It is very...

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