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POPSPiracy: You're doing it wrong "Once they realised they were facing a ship that was responding and was heading towards them, they stopped shooting and attempted to flee,"
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POPSiiNet case could set piracy precedent To me it is a problem between the owner of the rights and the people abusing those rights. They have the details of who downloaded, who uploaded and who sneezed. The laws are cockeyed. In Australia, if you go to the pub, get pissed, drive and have an accident, you can sue the licensee of the pub. The govt will have already booked the licensee for selling to an intoxicated person.
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POPSWho Are The Real Pirates In Africa's Waters? Like the pirates of the ``golden age’’, today's Somali pirates see themselves as fighting for justice. As Sugale Ali told the October 1, 2008, NYT: ``We don’t consider ourselves sea bandits. We consider sea bandits those who illegally fish in our seas and dump waste in our seas and carry weapons in our seas. We are simply patrolling our seas. Think of us like a coast guard.’’ ``The truth is, if you ask any Somali, if getting rid of the pirates only means the continuous rape of our coast by unmonitored Western vessels, and the production of a new cancerous generation, we would all fly our pirate flags high. It is time that the world gave the Somali people some assurance that these Western illegal activities will end, if our pirates are to their operations. We do not want the EU and NATO serving as a shield for these nuclear waste-dumping hoodlums.’’
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POPSWas Russia's 'Hijacked' Arctic Sea Carrying Missiles to the Mideast?
Kouts says an Israeli interception of the cargo is the most likely explanation. But this theory, which some Russian analysts put forward in the days after the Arctic Sea was rescued and which Kouts agreed with in his interview with TIME, has been vehemently denied by Russia's envoy to NATO, Dmitri Rogozin, who says Kouts should stop "running his mouth." The official explanation coming out of Moscow is simple enough: the Arctic Sea, manned by a Russian crew, set sail from Finland under a Maltese flag on July 22. It was destined for Algeria and carried less than $2 million worth of timber. Then a group of eight Russian and former Soviet hijackers boarded the ship on July 24. The ship's tracking device was disabled in the last days of July and the ship disappeared. On Aug. 12, the Russian navy sent out a search party. Why, with so many other ships carrying much more valuable cargo, would the hijackers target the Arctic Sea and its small load of timber?
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POPSNew NATO S-G wants to make its reach global Some things never change. Just like 10 years ago, NATO is still an obsolete bureaucracy trying to find a new mission to justify its existence. The temporary sense of relevance provided by the post-9/11 invocation of the mutual-defense provision didn't make NATO fundamentally useful in the long term.
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POPSCourt: Passengers can challenge no-fly list "The TSA, part of the Homeland Security Department, has lists of hundreds of thousands of names of passengers who allegedly pose a risk of terrorism or air piracy, information the agency shares with airlines. Those on the no-fly list are prevented from boarding. Passengers on a separate "selectee" list undergo additional searches." Full article at source.
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POPSThe Israeli Pirates Unlike the Somali pirates, this piracy will not be televised. Target: Palestinian fisherman (unarmed).
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POPSMissing Cargo Ship, Nah, Red October Probably Uh Oh, It looks like Europe will have to do some stuff and get their hands dirty with possible hijackers. Joke>>These guys got spooked by an earlier boarding and decided to scuttle.....Article mentioned a "secret cargo" suspected--this from Mikhail Voitenko, editor of the Russian Maritime Bulletin Web site said he believed the vessel was carrying "some kind of secret cargo" which made it attractive to potential hijackers.
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