Excellent , those Bad Ass U.S. Marines Doing what needs to be Done !
ABCNews
U.S. Marines today stormed a German-owned commercial vessel that had been captured by Somali pirates, in what appears to be the first U.S.-led military boarding off the coast of East Africa.
The MV Magellan Star was located in the Gulf of Aden, about 85 miles south of the Yemeni town of al Mukalla, when U.S. Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit's Maritime Raiding Force boarded and seized control of the ship.
The U.S. Navy released few details but said in a statement that there were no casualties among the raiding party or the ship's crew. Nine alleged pirates were captured in the operation.
Showing posts with label hijacking. Show all posts
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Thursday, September 9, 2010
Marines Recapture Ship From Pirates
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Somalis hijack Russian tanker, warship dispatched
"Any attempt to rescue the ship will certainly endanger the crew. The ship will be docked at Garacad," Abdi told Reuters by telephone, adding it was too early to talk about a ransom.
A Russian Warship has been sent to deal with this in a passive manner ?
(Reuters) - Somali pirates hijacked a Russian tanker carrying $52 million worth of crude oil and 23 crew on Wednesday, prompting Russia to send a warship to try to deal with the incident, officials said.
Pirates who hijacked the China-bound, Russian-owned MV Moscow University tanker 350 miles off the coast of Yemen warned against any rescue attempt, saying this would endanger the Russian crew.
"A Russian warship is moving toward the tanker," Russian defense ministry spokesman Alexei Kuznetsov said. The Chief of the Russian General Staff cut short a visit to NATO headquarters in Brussels to coordinate the military's response, he added.
The vessel had been traveling under a Liberian flag from Sudan to the Chinese port of Nigbo with 86,000 tonnes of oil owned by Chinese refiner Unipec, a Russian shipping source said. Maritime experts said the tanker had a deadweight of 106,474 tonnes.
"The crew members locked themselves in the radar room. This ship has been hijacked," Commander Rear Admiral Jan Thornqvist of the European Union's Navfor naval force told reporters in the Kenyan port of Mombasa.
One pirate who identified himself as Abdi said the tanker was heading to a pirate haven on the coast of central Somalia.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
US Navy holds 6 suspected pirates after battle
Mess with the U.S, navy and you will lose .
What were these Pirates thinking ? They must have thought that the U.S. would not return fire , it did not work out so well for them , now they are all sitting in a nice cell thinking how stupid they were in the first place .
Foxnews
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A U.S. warship captured six suspected pirates Saturday after a battle off the Horn of Africa — the Navy's third direct encounter with seafaring bandits in less than two weeks.
The Navy has taken at least 21 suspected pirates since March 31 in the violence-plagued waters off Somalia and nearby regions, where U.S. warships are part of an international anti-piracy flotilla.
A statement by the U.S. Navy said the suspected pirates began shooting at the amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland just before dawn about 380 miles (610 kilometers) off Djibouti, a small nation facing Yemen across the mouth of the Red Sea.
The Navy said the Ashland returned fire and the suspected pirate skiff was destroyed. All six people on board were rescued and taken aboard the Ashland.
The Ashland suffered no injuries or damage in the second recent attack on a U.S. warship by suspected pirates.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Turkish commandos seize 9 pirates in Gulf of Aden
A nice catch .
To bad more of this doesn't happen a little more often .
(Reuters) - Turkish commandos have captured nine pirates aboard a boat in the Gulf of Aden, the Turkish Armed Forces said in a statement on Thursday.
The frigate Gelibolu, serving as part of a NATO anti-piracy mission, intercepted the pirate skiff while monitoring the security corridor for merchant shipping 80 miles from the coast on Wednesday, the statement said.
"Commandos performed maneuvers to intercept the boat and captured nine pirates on board," it added.
The Turkish Armed Forces' website published photos of the pirates at sea in their skiff and later, after their capture, holding their hands above their heads.
Seaborne gangs have increased their attacks in the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden in recent months, making tens of millions of dollars in ransoms from seizing ships, including tankers and dry bulkers. Several vessels have been hijacked this week alone.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Somali pirate killed in cargo ship hijack shooting
Nice hearing that at least one of the Somalia pirates got theirs , To bad the Yemeni Navy did not have the balls to do what the Spanish Navy did And stop the Pirates and at least sink their vessels , though I would prefer sinking them loaded with Somali Douchbags !
(Reuters) - A suspected Somali pirate was killed during shooting between pirates and armed guards on board a Panamanian-flagged ship, a maritime official and the EU anti-piracy taskforce said on Wednesday.
The private guards protecting the MV Almezaan returned fire as they beat back two attacks by the same gang off the coast of lawless Somalia on Tuesday.
Somali pirates attacked a Yemeni oil tanker off the Yemen coast on Wednesday, but the Yemeni navy foiled the assault, the defense ministry said.
Navy and coast guard vessels engaged four pirate boats that had surrounded the tanker, which was carrying crude oil to the Yemeni port of Aden, and forced them to flee, a Yemeni Defense Ministry website said.
Marauding sea gangs have attacked ships in the busy lanes in the Gulf of Aden that link Europe and Asia for several years, earning ransoms worth millions of dollars from vessels captured.
In the attack on the MV Almezaan, a patrolling Spanish warship deployed a helicopter that fired warning shots to stop the pirates as they fled the area. Spanish troops seized six individuals, recovered one body and destroyed three pirate vessels.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Somali pirates seize weapons ship, attack tanker
The Somalia pirates again reach out even farther in their attempt to takeover the waterways around the Horn of Africa !
And now they have more weapons to do it with !
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali pirates have seized a United Arab Emirates-flagged cargo ship loaded with weapons bound for the anarchic Horn of Africa nation in contravention of a U.N. arms embargo, maritime experts said Monday.
Also Monday, the gunmen launched their longest range hijack attempt yet -- opening fire on a giant Hong Kong-flagged crude oil tanker 1,000 nautical miles east of Mogadishu.
Andrew Mwangura of the East African Seafarers' Assistance Program told Reuters he believed the weapons ship was using a fake name. He said it had been hijacked Sunday and was now held near the northern Somali town of Garacad.
"She is one of the regular weapons carriers circumventing the U.N. arms embargo on Somalia," Mwangura said. Maritime sources say the craft is believed to be carrying light arms and ammunition, as well as rockets and rocket-propelled grenades.
"We understand the weapons belong to the Somali government," Farah, a pirate, told Reuters by satellite telephone.
Another gang member, Hassan, said the weapons ship was well known to them: "It has been circling in our ocean for a long time, bringing illegal weapons to massacre Somalis," he said.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Hijacked China ship shows pirates extending reach
Now 700 nautical miles these little jackass's are willing to go to hijack a ship , A big increase from the 400 or so they were willing to go before .
Why the shipping companies do not demand the right to fully arm their ships with high powered guns to defend themselves , is mind numbing !
BEIJING (Reuters) - The hijacking of a Chinese coal ship in the Indian Ocean shows Somali pirates are extending their reach beyond the Gulf of Aden and the Somali coast, shippers said as traders worried that more coal ships could become targets.
The De Xin Hai, carrying about 76,000 tons of coal from South Africa to the port of Mundra, in Gujarat, India, was hijacked about 700 nautical miles off the east coast of Somalia on Monday, the European Union's counter-piracy force said.
The ship could be brought to Haradheere, a pirate stronghold, or Hobyo, both on the central part of Somalia's Indian Ocean coastline, pirates told Reuters.
"This shows that the pirates are expanding their operations," said an official at the China Shipowners' Association in Beijing.
"The Indian Ocean is very big, and too hard to defend. The Gulf of Aden is a more limited area."
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu told reporters in Beijing that his government had "actively started rescue operations" for the ship, which has a crew of 25. He declined to give details but observers said they expected the issue to be resolved diplomatically.
"The ship was apparently hijacked some 700 nautical miles from the coast, which shows the distance the pirates are now able to operate as well as potentially the effect of the naval forces in the Gulf," said Arthur Bowring, of the Hong Kong Shipowners Association.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Bolivian man acted alone in Mexico hijacking, official says
You Gotta give it to the whack jobs out there ! They are great entertainment !
It seems that 8 of the 9 detained men were not involved at all , But only one whacko ,was responsible , A god fearing , end of the world preaching , Loon !
The End is NIGH !
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MEXICO CITY (CNN) -- A 44-year-old Bolivian drug addict and alcoholic who describes himself as a church minister was the sole person responsible for the brief hijacking Wednesday of a commercial jetliner, a Mexican official said.
The suspect -- Josmar Flores Pereira -- told authorities he hijacked the Boeing 737 jet because the date -- September 9, 2009, or 9/9/9, and 666 reversed -- held some significance for him, said Genaro Garcia Luna, the secretary for public safety.
"He said that because of that divine reference he wanted to alert Mexico City of an earthquake," Garcia told reporters.
Flanked by two police officers, the suspect -- wearing a white shirt and blue jeans -- was then paraded in front of the news media. Chewing gum, he smiled.
"Christ is coming soon," he told reporters before being escorted off.
The hijacker took control of Aeromexico Flight 576 as the jet it flew from the resort town of Cancun, telling a flight attendant he was one of three hijackers, Garcia said.
He said a cardboard box he had contained a bomb, and threatened to blow it up if his demand to speak to President Felipe Calderon was not met, Garcia said.
Calderon was in the presidential hangar in the airport preparing to depart when the incident began, leading him to cancel his planned flight, CNN affiliate TV Azteca reported.
The hijacking apparently went unnoticed by many of those aboard the plane, which landed five minutes ahead of scheduled and was moved to a remote area of the airport. Passengers, clutching their hand luggage, walked from the plane and down a moveable stairway onto the tarmac, where they got into buses.
Moments later, the suspect -- and several other people -- were taken into custody, TV Azteca said. The package turned out not to contain explosives, the station said.
Garcia said the other people who were detained turned out not to be involved.
Mexican hijack ends peacefully, all aboard safe
These jokers never got their way , Now they Are going to jail for a long time -
(reuters)
Hijackers seized an AeroMexico passenger plane in Mexico with more than 100 people on board on Wednesday but the incident ended quickly. without bloodshed, and nine suspects were detained.
In the first hijack drama to hit Mexico in decades, pilots of the Boeing 737 radioed in after taking off from the Caribbean resort of Cancun to say they had been hijacked in mid-air, Transport Minister Juan Molinar told reporters.
About two hours after the plane landed at Mexico City's international airport, its original destination, Molinar said all the passengers were safely off the aircraft and that there was no bomb threat.
"The passengers are safe. There was no bomb," Molinar told Mexico's Televisa channel shortly after TV images showed police leading the hijackers off the plane in handcuffs.
Nine men were detained, the daily El Universal reported on its website.
Mexican media said the hijackers had threatened to blow up the plane unless they were allowed to speak to President Felipe Calderon, whose presidential jet took off from Mexico City for the southeastern city of Campeche shortly after the drama.
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Friday, April 10, 2009
Somali Pirates Send More Ships to Area of Standoff with US
The Day they started to hand over the pirates that were captured to Authorities , that was the signal for them to go ahead and keep doing what they do ! back in the days of old pirates , these rejects would have been strung up for everyone to see !
It may be barbaric ,but , what the pirates are doing is way worse !
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Maritime officials in east Africa say Somali pirates are sending several hijacked ships carrying dozens of hostages to the site of a standoff with the U.S. Navy over American captive Richard Phillips.
The officials say the pirates, who are holding Phillips on a lifeboat, are apparently trying to use the other hostages as shields. The pirates have threatened to kill Phillips if they are attacked. They are demanding a ransom for his release.
One U.S. warship, the USS Bainbridge, is already tracking the lifeboat where Phillips is being held. Pentagon officials say another Navy ship, the Halliburton, which is equipped with helicopters, has also arrived in the area.
Phillips has been held since Wednesday when hijackers briefly seized control of the humanitarian cargo ship he captained.
Pirates said to recapture U.S. captain after escape bid
Being the only negotiating tool these pirates have , Capt . Phillips , is very valuable to them !Hopefully he is released soon ! Someone is going to have to take the lead here and start dealing with these pirates like they deserve ! If they Know that they have motherships Cruising around with little skiffs in tow , They need to be found , dealt with , and then sunk ! ( preferably with the pirates still on board ! )
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The American ship captain held hostage by pirates on a lifeboat off Somalia tried to escape by jumping into the sea, but was quickly recaptured, U.S. media reported on Friday.
Citing defence sources, CBS News and CNN said Captain Richard Phillips, who is being held on a lifeboat adrift in the Indian Ocean, had jumped overboard, but was captured, within view of a U.S. warship.
CNN said that U.S. officials believe Phillips was unhurt in the escape attempt.
Four pirates have been holding Phillips since a foiled bid to hijack his cargo ship, the 17,000-tonne Maersk Alabama, several hundred miles off Somalia.
Phillips apparently volunteered to get in the lifeboat with the pirates to act as a hostage to secure the safety of the Alabama's 20 American crew members, who managed to retake control of their ship.
The freighter, which is carrying food aid for Uganda and Somalia, is now on its way to Kenya, its original destination.
The USS Bainbridge is close to the lifeboat and has called on the FBI and other U.S. officials to help negotiate with the pirates.
Friday, January 9, 2009
Somali pirates release Saudi oil tanker
The pirates are now $3 million richer. ReutersMOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali pirates freed a Saudi supertanker seized in the world's biggest ship hijacking for a $3 million ransom on Friday.
The capture of the Sirius Star and its $100 million cargo of crude in November drew attention to a surge in piracy off Somalia that has brought global navies rushing to protect one of the world's most important shipping lanes.
Farah Osman, an associate of the pirates speaking to Reuters from Haradheere port near where the tanker was held, said the gang had wanted more money but finally agreed $3 million. "The pirates are now arguing about division of the money," he said.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Reduction in number of ships hijacked by pirates
There were over 100 pirate hijackings off the coast of Somalia in 2008. But in the month of December there were only 2 hijackings off the coast. BBCThere has been a sharp reduction in the number of ships seized by pirates off Somalia in December, the International Maritime Bureau says.
Despite a large number of attacks, only two ships were hijacked last month, the bureau's director told the BBC.[...]
"There have been many attempted attacks but there were only two vessels which were hijacked in December," Capt Pottengal Mukundan, the director of the International Maritime Bureau (IMB), told the BBC.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
US warship backs off as pirate talks continue
This is what the US NAvy is today...spectators. The Navy has forgotten why it was created in the first place, TO BATTLE ISLAMIC PIRATES!!!!!!
Now 200 years later, the Navy opts to back off and let negotiations take place between the pirates and the shipping company. Negotiations between Europeans and the US with the Barbary pirates never stemmed pirate attacks. The response that Thomas Jefferson received from the BArbary pirates was as follows:
It was written in their Koran, that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave; and that every mussulman who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to paradise. He said, also, that the man who was the first to board a vessel had one slave over and above his share, and that when they sprang to the deck of an enemy's ship, every sailor held a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth; which usually struck such terror into the foe that they cried out for quarter at once.It was thanks to the US Marines who fought in the battle of Tripoli that ended the Barbay piracy.
USe those massive cannons on the ships, send in the NAVY Seals. Do something!Reuters
"The pirates have regained hope of getting a ransom (for the Faina). Ukrainian and Somali men from abroad are involved in the bargaining," he told Reuters by telephone.
"I'm sure America is also playing a role because the warship has moved some kms (miles) further away."
The U.S. Navy sent a destroyer and other vessels to track the Faina after it was seized by Somali gunmen in September.
Lieutenant Nathan Christensen, a spokesmen for the U.S. Fifth Fleet based in Bahrain, said several U.S. vessels remained within sight of the cargo ship -- which is carrying 33 Soviet-era T-72 tanks and other heavy weapons.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Pirate mother ship blown out of water by frigate as two more boats are seized
Well it's about damn time !
Way to go Indian Navy !!!Times online
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The battle with pirates operating off the coast of Somalia grew yesterday when raiders seized two more ships but lost one of their own in an uneven firefight with the Indian Navy. The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) described the situation yesterday as “out of control”.
The surge in hijackings came as Saudi Arabia confirmed that a ransom demand had been made for the freeing of the Sirius Star supertanker, seized at the weekend with her crew of 25 and a cargo of oil worth $100 million (£65 million).
Two more vessels – a Thai fishing boat with a crew of 16 and a bulk carrier, believed to be Greek, with an unknown number of people aboard – were seized by pirates in the Gulf of Aden yesterday, bringing the total to nine vessels in 12 days
Late on Tuesday night the Indian frigate Tabar destroyed the raiders’ “mother ship” after coming under attack from pirates firing rocketpropelled grenades, the Indian Navy said. The confrontation was the first involving one of the vessels used by the pirates to extend their range. Shipping groups said that the loss of a vessel did not mean that the pirates’ activities would be curtailed. “The situation is already out of control,” said Noel Choong, head of the piracy reporting centre at the IMB in Kuala Lumpur. “With no strong deterrent, low risk to the pirates and high returns, the attacks will continue.”
David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, said yesterday that the Royal Navy was coordinating the European response to the supertanker’s seizure from its warship in the region, HMS Cumberland. Saudi Arabia has also pledged to join the international task force operating under a UN mandate, along with new pledges of ships from Sweden and South Korea.
Two British crewmen held hostage aboard theSirius Starwere named yesterday as chief engineer Peter French and second officer James Grady. Of the remaining crew, 19 are Filipino, 2 Polish, 1 Croatian and 1 Saudi.
The international furore over the hijack of the supertanker, the largest ship yet taken by pirates, may lead its captors to seek a swift resolution for fear of other intervention. However, the value of both vessel and cargo may also lead to drawn-out bargaining, as it has in the case of the Ukrainian arms ship seized in September. The Qatar-based Arabic TV channel al-Jazeera aired video yesterday of a purported middleman saying that negotiations had begun on board the tanker and on shore.
The Saudi Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, said the ship’s owners, Vela International, had opened negotiations over a sum, although the company itself remained tight-lipped, citing the safety of the crew. The ship is moored off the Somali coast, close to the well-defended pirate haven of Eyl.
“I know that the owners of the tanker are negotiating on the issue,” the prince said. “We do not like to negotiate with either terrorists or hijackers, but the owners of the tankers are the final arbiters of what happens there.”
“What we know is that we are going to join the task force that will try eradicate this threat to international trade.”
The violence of the Indian confrontation on Tuesday night has raised alarm over the pirates’ growing audacity. An Indian Navy statement said the confrontation began when the Tabar approached the boat and spotted groups of men armed with rocketpropelled grenades and Kalashnikovs.
“The INS Tabar closed in on the mother vessel and asked her to stop for investigation,” the statement said. “But on repeated calls, the vessel’s threatening response was that she would blow up the naval warship if it approached.”
An exchange of fire ensued and the navy ship opened up with heavy guns. “From what we see in photographs the pirate vessel is completely destroyed,” a senior naval officer said.
British Royal Navy Commodore Keith Winstanley, deputy commander of the Combined Maritime Forces in the Middle East, said he feared no amount of coalition forces would be sufficient to secure the 2.5 million sq nautical miles of the Gulf of Aden, let alone the Indian Ocean waters where the supertanker was seized. “The pirates will go somewhere we are not,” he said. “If we patrol the Gulf of Aden then they will go to Mogadishu. If we go to Mogadishu, they will go to the Gulf of Aden.”
Monday, October 6, 2008
Jihad on the High Seas Continues
Even with several US Navy warships surrounding the Faina and a Russian frigate steaming towards it, 6 more ships have been hijacked in the Gulf of Aden by islamic pirates. WiredAs if seizing a ship-load of tanks and small arms wasn't bad enough. Pirates have attacked six more vessels off the coast of Somalia in just the past week, according to data from NATO. The now-infamous, weapons-clogged MV Faina remains in pirates' hands. And international tensions are ratcheting up by the day.
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The latest attacks brings the total number of "piracy-related incidents" in the Gulf of Aden and off the Somali coast to 93. A dozen vessels are currently being held for ransom -- their last known whereabouts are on the NATO slide, above.
"Larger cargo/oil/gas/chemical tankers" are now the pirates' favorite target. The idea isn't just to make money off of a single attack. Often, the vessels are being hijacked "with the sole intention of using them" as "mother ships," to launch more small-boat strikes.
Often, the Islamic militants battling the Somali government benefit from the operations. The Al Shabaab group "received a five per cent cut of the $1.5 million paid out for a Spanish ship released several months ago," the Telegraph reports. But this time, the pirates allegedly dissed the insurgents."Al Shabaab wanted some weapons from the [MV Faina] but the pirates rejected their demands," an unnamed local official tells the paper.
Maybe that's because there's now a Russian frigate closing in on the hijacked vessel "and a half-dozen U.S. warships within shouting distance," as the AP notes.
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