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Somali Pirate's Body Washes Ashore With $153,000

AP | MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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MOGADISHU, Somalia — The body of a Somali pirate who drowned just after receiving a huge ransom washed onshore with $153,000 in cash, a resident...

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Somali Pirates Free Saudi Tanker

BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011

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A Saudi super-tanker that was captured by Somali pirates in November carrying two million barrels of oil has been released, unconfirmed reports say. ...

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BBC Reporter Has Daughter Phone Somali Pirates

BBC | Posted 05.25.2011

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My daughter had heard me repeatedly trying to get through to the Somali pirates on board the Sirius Star. They usually picked up the phone but put it...

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Oil Piracy, OPEC, Saudi Arabia, You and Me

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Raymond J. Learsy

For the first time ever, an unguarded Saudi oil tanker displacing 318,000 tons (the size of a small island), sailing off the Kenyan coast, was picked off by a band of pirates operating a motorized dinghy.

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Saudis May Use Military Force Against Somali Pirates

Press TV | Posted 05.25.2011

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Saudi Arabia is likely to use military force to rescue a giant oil tanker recently seized by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. The country might...

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