NAIROBI, Kenya — Guards aboard the Maersk Alabama used guns and a sound blaster Wednesday to repel the second pirate attack in seven months on t...
CNN | Posted 07.02.2009 | World
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Navy is investigating how thousands of dollars went missing in the rescue of the captain of the Maersk Alabama in April, a Pen...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.01.2009 | Media
Lots of conservative media figures acted all aggrieved when -- at the encouragement of the protesters themselves, who proudly vowed to "teabag" variou...
John Feffer | Posted 05.23.2009 | World
In the comic-book imagination of some of our leading pundits, the two headline threats against U.S. power -- al-Qaeda and pirates -- are on the verge of teaming up.
BBC NEWS | Posted 05.18.2009 | World
A Somali teenager captured by the US navy during a confrontation with pirates is to be taken to the US to face trail, US officials have said....
Warren Holstein | Posted 05.17.2009 | Comedy
Avast, ye picaroons! If landlubber Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has his way, good ole American privateers will be set loose on ye wily pillaging Somalian buccaneers and get all War of 1812 on yer booties.
AP | LARRY MARGASAK and CALVIN WOODWARD | Posted 05.17.2009 | World
OXON HILL, Md. — "If I die I'm going to take someone else with me," one seaman vowed, grabbing a knife as alarms pierced the Maersk Alabama and ...
McClatchy | Shashank Bengali | Posted 05.15.2009 | World
As the Maersk Alabama plowed through the glassy waters of the Indian Ocean last Wednesday morning, the cargo ship's 70-year-old electrician sat in the...
William Bradley | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics
Obama used the resources of the US military and government to shut down the pirates' options and make them more vulnerable.
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.14.2009 | World
What would a "pirate" defense actually look like? Remember, some Somalis -- and other international observers -- do not exactly see the "pirates" as being 100% unjustified in their actions.
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.11.2009 | World
The most powerful Navy in the world remains in a standoff with four pirates in a small boat. So threatening to US national security are these pirates, Gen. Petraeus is now running the operation.
AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 05.11.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — A ragtag band of pirates has put President Barack Obama in a bind: He commands overwhelming firepower in the form of a growing flot...
AP | JAY LINDSAY | Posted 05.11.2009 | World
BOSTON — An American hostage held by armed Somali pirates in a tiny lifeboat may be protected by a lucrative _ and possibly growing _ ransom on ...
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.10.2009 | World
It's important not to demonize Somalians, even the Somalian pirates. When we demonize our enemies, they become less than human, and it becomes easy to apply such blanket rhetoric as "terrorists."
AP | Posted 05.10.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has declined to answer a question about the hostage situation off the coast of Somalia. The president was a...
Jon Santiago | Posted 05.10.2009 | World
What happened to good old-fashioned, face-to-face crime? Internet hackers, Madoff -- these guys all get things done from a distance, behind keyboards, against opponents that haven't got a chance.
AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 05.10.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials have found no direct ties between East African pirates and terrorist groups but continue to search for signs of link...
AP | ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY and MATT APUZZO | Posted 05.10.2009 | World
NAIROBI, Kenya — Somali pirates and their hostage American sea captain were adrift in a lifeboat Thursday off the Horn of Africa, shadowed by a ...
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.09.2009 | World
Take this fact: Over $300 million worth of tuna, shrimp, and lobster are "being stolen every year by illegal trawlers" off Somalia's coast, forcing the fishing industry there into a state of virtual non-existence.
AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.09.2009 | World
The International Maritime Bureau says 260 crew on 14 hijacked ships are being held off the coast of Somalia, not including the U.S.-flagged ship seiz...
AP | KATHARINE HOURELD | Posted 05.09.2009 | World
NAIROBI, Kenya — In a riveting high-seas drama, an unarmed American crew wrested control of their U.S.-flagged cargo ship from Somali pirates We...
AP | KATHARINE HOURELD | Posted 05.09.2009 | World
NAIROBI, Kenya — In a riveting high-seas drama, an unarmed American crew wrested control of their U.S.-flagged cargo ship from Somali pirates We...
AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 11.18.2009 | World