Indian Navy Captures 16 Somali Pirates On Pirate Mothership

Indian Navy Captures 16 Somali Pirates On Iranian Ship -- BBC

India's navy has seized 16 Somali pirates after a three-hour-long battle in the Arabian Sea, a spokesman said.

The navy also rescued 16 crew members of a hijacked Iranian ship west of the Lakshadweep islands. The crew included 12 Iranians and four Pakistanis.

The navy said the pirates were using the vessel as a mother ship to launch attacks in the Indian Ocean. They were trying to seize another ship.

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Navy intercepts pirate ship, apprehends 16 in Arabian Sea -- The Hindu
Indian Navy thwart piracy attempt, 16 pirates held -- Economic Times
Sixteen pirates captured across Lakshadweep -- IBN LIve
Indian Navy captures 16 pirates, rescues kidnapped crew-- Defense Web

Pirates Hijack Oil Tanker off East Africa -- ABC News
Pirates hijack oil tanker off East Africa -- SFGate/AP
Pirates hijack oil tanker off East Africa -- CTV News

India, Somalia agree to tackle Somali pirates menace jointly -- Daily India
Somali pirates : steep rise in attacks -- News Insurance
Somali pirate offers to release Danish family in exchange for hand of daughter, 13 -- Daily Mail

Somali Piracy News Updates -- March 11, 2011

Somali Captors Kill Eight Soldiers In Failed Rescue Bid For Danish Family -- The Telegraph

The Somali pirates holding a Danish family hostage on Thursday killed eight Puntland government troops who were heading towards their mountain hideout, security officials said.

Officials said forces from the northern Somali breakaway state where the seven hostages – four adults and three teenage children – are held were approaching the pirates' lair and were intercepted on the way.

"Puntland armed forces clashed with pirates near Bandar Beyla and the information we're getting indicates that there were casualties," said Abdifatah Mohamed, a security official based in Bosasso.

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Pirate: Don't try Danish hostage rescue again -- AP
Bid to rescue Danish hostages from Somali pirates fails -- BBC
Bloody firefight over pirate hostages -- Copenhagen Post
Somalia: Pirates Repel Effort to Rescue Danish Family -- New York Times
Danes' Somali captors kill eight soldiers -- AFP
Attempt to free Danish family from pirates fails -- Defense Web
Pirates holding Danish family rebuff rescue attempt -- Global Post

Suspected Pirates Indicted in Yacht Killings -- Wall Street Journal
14 Somali 'pirates' accused of killing four U.S. sailors appear in Virginia court over yacht hijack -- The Daily Mail
US Indicts Suspected Pirates for Deadly Yacht Attack -- Voice of America
14 suspected pirates indicted in attack on yacht that left 4 Americans dead -- L.A. Times

UN Security Council expresses worries about 'grave threat' of Somali piracy -- Canadian Press
Battling piracy: Somalia’s red tide -- Toronto Star
Red Sea piracy may be going multinational - U.S. -- Reuters
Shippers demand action on piracy -- Wales Online
Somalia: Not Enough Ships to Stop Pirate Attacks -- Voice of America
How to Survive a Pirate Attack -- FOX News
Somali Piracy: Send in the Marines...Then the Lawyers -- D.R. Burgess, Huffington Post

Somali Piracy News Updates -- December 17, 2010

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Expert: “We’re Not Getting Anywhere” With Somali Pirates -- War Is Boring

Nineteen years after the collapse of the Somali government, a decade since impoverished Somali fishermen began arming themselves to ward off foreign fishing vessels and around two years since NATO, the E.U. and the U.S. Navy all formed counter-piracy forces for the Indian Ocean, sea banditry off the Somali coast continues unabated. By some measures, the problem has grown worse, with more pirates striking farther from the Somali coast — as far north as the Indian coast — and taking more hostages and holding them longer. To gain a sense of the progress, or lack thereof, of the international “war on piracy,” Offiziere.ch spoke to Dr. Martin Murphy, a Virginia-based piracy expert and author of the forthcoming book Somalia, the New Barbary?

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EU Force: Somali pirates cannot be stopped by force -- BBC
Somali pirates widen reach despite EU efforts -- Reuters
U.S. Says Somali Pirates Are Dodging Navies, Operating Near India Coast -- Bloomberg
Navies evacuate sick crew member from pirated ship -- AP
Pirates jailed for 22 years by Seychelles -- Asia One/AFP
Seychelles court sentences 9 Somalia pirates to 22 years of jail -- Voice of Russia
Pirates to be tried in Dutch courts -- Radio Netherlands
India: Coastline threatened by Somali piracy -- Energy Publisher
Somali Pirates Capture Vessel in Indian Ocean; Second Time in a Week -- Time Magazine
Hijacked Bangladeshi ship crew unhurt in Somalia -- AFP
Pirates seize ship 1,000 miles from Somali coast -- The Guardian
Does Somalia’s New Pirate-Fighting Militia Stand a Chance? -- Danger Room
UN official glad about new Somali force but wary -- TMCnet/AP
A better way to deal with pirates -- David B. Rivkin Jr. and Carlos Ramos-Mrosovsky, Washington Post
The Comprehensive Open Source African Piracy Update -- Information Dissemination

Somali Piracy News Updates -- November 13, 2010

Somali Piracy Flourishes Into Lucrative Business -- AFP

DOHA — Somali pirates have set up a sophisticated network of agents to negotiate and launder ransom money that has turned the seizing of ships into a lucrative business, experts say.

The sea pirates use the financial hub of Dubai and Somalia's southern neighbour Kenya as key transit points to launder the millions of dollars in ransom money by organised and wealthy gangs.

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UN official: Somalia piracy problem outpaces efforts to halt high seas robbery, kidnapping -- Canadian Press
Somali pirates 'outpace' crackdown -- Al Jazeera
Somali piracy outpacing multinational efforts to stop it, says UN official -- AP
Somali piracy flourishes into lucrative business -- Star Africa
Somali pirates hijack ship with 29 Chinese crew -- Times of India
Pirates seize ship 'nearer to India than Somalia' -- BBC
Kenya Navy kills three suspected Somali pirates -- Swiss Info
Did Somali Terrorists Try to Hijack a Peacekeeper Ship? Probably Not -- The Danger Room
Uganda slams Western pirate strategy in Somalia -- RFI
Send troops not navies to Somalia, says Uganda -- AFP
Landmark Somali 'pirate' trial in US to last three weeks -- AFP
Jury hears conflicting stories as US piracy trial of 5 Somali men begins in Va. -- Canadian Press
Somalis' Piracy Trial Underway in United States -- Voice of America
Landmark Kenya ruling could see dozens of Somali pirates set free -- Christian Science Monitor
Court says Kenya has no jurisdiction to prosecute Somali pirates caught outside its waters -- Canadian Press
Yemen Losses Reach US$ 150 Million Due to Piracy: PM -- Yemen Post
Yemen reiterates commitment to help int'l efforts to combat piracy -- Yemen News Agency
Pirates Plague Seas Beyond Somalia -- Epoch Times
African Union links international crime networks to Somali piracy -- Afrique En Ligne
Somalia Pirates' Success Rate Rises, Stunting East Africa Economies -- Bloomberg