<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/073d5fe5-0a0f-4bcf-b68d-0fcc49f66772/C553D093-9C55-4F03-8156-4AA7CD5AF801/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/intensifying-the-hunt-against-somali-pirates/" href="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/intensifying-the-hunt-against-somali-pirates/" style="font-size: 11px;">thelede.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/intensifying-the-hunt-against-somali-pirates/"><H2 class="post-title">Intensifying the Hunt Against Somali Pirates</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/intensifying-the-hunt-against-somali-pirates/">Pirates operating off the coast of Somalia haven’t caused so much havoc by simply being ruthless. Their innovative tactics have enabled them to launch attacks farther out on the high seas than small skiffs should be able to go, and then they evade pursuers by floating closer to the shore, where international patrols can’t follow without permission from Somalia’s embattled government.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/intensifying-the-hunt-against-somali-pirates/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/img/0D5965DE-DB3F-4138-9113-1727BF48503D" alt="india" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/intensifying-the-hunt-against-somali-pirates/"><P>First, the International Maritime Organization — the United Nations authority on international waters — <A href="http://www.imo.org/Newsroom/mainframe.asp?topic_id=1472&doc_id=8751">urged Somalia</A> to grant a blanket consent for any members of an American-led military coalition to pursue pirates into its waters. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/intensifying-the-hunt-against-somali-pirates/">the American-led coalition have set off on a hunt for the pirate “mother ships,”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/intensifying-the-hunt-against-somali-pirates/">The mother ships don’t carry weapons, he says, preferring to arm two or three smaller boats with antitank missiles, machine guns and rocket propelled grenades.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/intensifying-the-hunt-against-somali-pirates/">When a merchant ship comes into view, the small, fast boats attack as a pack.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C553D093-9C55-4F03-8156-4AA7CD5AF801/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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