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<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.net/images/stories/real-pirates.gif" border="0" class="linked-image" /> This one is a bit different. Instead of holding this Indian cargo ship for ransom, pirates confiscated her cargo and fuel, tortured her crew members and then set her adrift. An alarming change in tactics. Unfortunately the article never states just what the ships cargo was.
<blockquote><b>Somali pirates release Indian ship Sun,</b>
22 Mar 2009 12:31:01 GMT
Somali pirates have released the Indian vessel al-Rafiquei after confiscating its cargo and fuel and torturing the ships crewmembers.
Pirates unloaded the ship's goods and fuel and cast it adrift on Saturday, after which it headed toward an unknown Somali port far off its original destination, Mogadishu -- where it was to unload its private-owned merchandise.
All of al-Rafiquei's 16 crewmembers were brutally tortured before their release, Press TV's Somali correspondent reported.
The Indian ship was on its way to Somalia from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates when it was seized by pirates in the Gulf of Aden and steered toward an unknown location.
The owner company had earlier asked the Indian navy and coalition forces based in the Gulf of Aden "to provide immediate assistance". </blockquote> You can read the full story <a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=89332§ionid=351020501" target="_blank">HERE</a> Read on for the rest of this weeks Weekly Piracy Report!
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<blockquote><b>Somali pirates release Indian ship Sun,</b>
22 Mar 2009 12:31:01 GMT
Somali pirates have released the Indian vessel al-Rafiquei after confiscating its cargo and fuel and torturing the ships crewmembers.
Pirates unloaded the ship's goods and fuel and cast it adrift on Saturday, after which it headed toward an unknown Somali port far off its original destination, Mogadishu -- where it was to unload its private-owned merchandise.
All of al-Rafiquei's 16 crewmembers were brutally tortured before their release, Press TV's Somali correspondent reported.
The Indian ship was on its way to Somalia from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates when it was seized by pirates in the Gulf of Aden and steered toward an unknown location.
The owner company had earlier asked the Indian navy and coalition forces based in the Gulf of Aden "to provide immediate assistance". </blockquote> You can read the full story <a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=89332§ionid=351020501" target="_blank">HERE</a> Read on for the rest of this weeks Weekly Piracy Report!
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