Dec 22 2008
I found this piece, from the BBC, fascinating to contemplate, as an American:
Iran sends ship against pirates
Iran has sent a warship to the Gulf of Aden to protect its merchant shipping from attacks by Somali pirates, Iranian state media has reported.
The Iranian force joins ships from the EU, US, India, Russia, Malaysia and others which [...]
Nov 18 2008
On Cap’n Richard Rodriguez’s superlative Bitter End blog, we find this:
http://captrichardrodriguez.blogspot.com/2008/11/more-piracy-news.html
A hijacked supertanker with two British crew members was being taken to a Somali port this afternoon after pirates seized their biggest vessel yet off the African coast. Acts of piracy in the shipping lanes of the Arabian Sea have become increasingly violent and commonplace [...]
Oct 15 2008
If you’re paying attention (always a question, since there’s so much going on these days in the world), the piracy thing is getting a lot of media attention lately. And people are genuinely freaked out. Everyone loves Jack Sparrow, but when faced with the reality of piracy, that there are scary folks out there on [...]