This is a good thing ! but if the foreign navies had some real balls and started shooting these derelicts on site , I am sure that it would be more effective !
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - An international crackdown on piracy off Somalia's coast has yielded around 100 arrests and put bandits operating near the Horn of Africa on the defensive, U.S. and U.N. officials said on Friday.
"The international maritime presence is increasingly successful," U.N. special envoy to Somalia Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah told reporters.
"It is successful because pirates have to go further away," Ould-Abdallah said. As a result, pirates have to spend more of the ransom money they receive to hijack ships and avoid arrest, Ould-Abdallah said.
"Many (pirates) have been captured," Ould-Abdallah said. "We have about 100 already arrested. I don't know how many disappeared. ... I think financiers behind them are also aware that they are being watched."
Foreign navies have been deployed off the coast of the lawless Horn of Africa state since the turn of the year to try to prevent piracy that has flourished in busy Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean shipping lanes.
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