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Pirates prowling the treacherous waters off the Horn of Africa hijacked another merchant ship Tuesday -- at least the second in four days -- amid growing international concern about a 21st century version of an ancient security threat.
The Hong Kong-flagged cargo ship Delight and its 25-person crew were captured late Tuesday morning off the coast of Yemen, Beijing's New China News Agency reported, citing the China Maritime Search and Rescue Center. It was hauling 36,000 metric tons of wheat to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, the news service reported.
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Pirates hijack another merchant ship off Africa
News Type: Event — Seeded on Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:39 AM EST
Article Source: The L.A. Times
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CoH is in effect.
This is so much bull@!$%#. There are the pirates that fashion themselves the Somali "Coast Guard," and there are jerks working for douchebag warlords. They are not the same. The former are justified, striking out against those that rob them of their livelihood by polluting the waters that they fish. The latter exploit the situation for profit.
If you want to do away with piracy, do away with global capitalism, or at least the aspects of it that ravage the third world.
One must ask, in this instance as with any other, who profits from things as they are? Do those people have any impact on how the facts are reported? Do they perpetuate things as they are?
The answers: the global ruling class, yes, and yes. So, do we lump the Somali "Coast Guard" in with the warlords, and blame them all without speaking to the socioeconomic circumstances that led to their current situation, or do we look at ourselves and how we have allowed those circumstances to continue? Do we blame victims and parasites exploiting the situation perpetuated by others, or do we blame the perpetuators first?
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