Okay, okay! You... 
got me!
Posted on 05/11/2009 12:02:25 PM PDT by gandalftb
The Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean are directed to their targets by a "consultant" team in London, according to European military intelligence.
Pirate groups have "well-placed informers" in London who are in regular contact with control centres in Somalia where decisions on which vessels to attack are made. These London-based "consultants" help the pirates select targets, providing information on the ships' cargoes and courses.
In at least one case the pirates have remained in contact with their London informants from the hijacked ship, according to one targeted shipping company.
The pirates' information network extends to Yemen, Dubai and the Suez canal.
This enables the more organised pirate groups to study their targets in advance, even spending several days training teams for specific hijacks. Senior pirates then join the vessel once it has been sailed close to Somalia.
Captains of attacked ships have found that pirates know everything from the layout of the vessel to its ports of call. Vessels targeted as a result of this kind of intelligence included the Greek cargo ship Titan, the Turkish merchant ship Karagol and the Spanish trawler Felipe Ruano.
In each case, says the document, the pirates had full knowledge of the cargo, nationality and course of the vessel.
The national flag of a ship is also taken into account when choosing a target, with British vessels being increasingly avoided, according to the report.
European countries have set up Operation Atalanta to co-ordinate their military efforts in the area.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Somehow, this doesn’t surprise me.
The Brit need to figure who these people are, and “disappear” them...
Wishful thinking, I know.
They would have access to all the information on shipping, dates, layout of the vessels, crew, etc.
Okay, okay! You... got me!
I would be willing to wager that this goes far beyond some “consultant team in London.” There are multiple European and Middle Eastern based companies and groups that have an orchestrated vested interest in having specific cargoes targeted.
This article simply reaffirms a longstanding thesis that modern piracy is ‘big business.’ Some Somali acts of piracy are no different.
Another element of war. Though ‘bamy and the Brits want to be the islamists friends.
Jus' asking?
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My thought exactly. So no, I don’t wanna bet ya! LOL.
Send in Jack Bauer!!!!
I guess Britain’s diversity is its strength.
The British Invasion continues...
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And to think this used to be the nation that conquered almost all the known world.
Then the sixties came along.
And to think this used to be the nation that conquered almost all the known world.
Then the sixties came along.
Obama supports Odinga. Odinga's Orange Party tried to overthrough the Kenyan Government when they lost the 2007 election, using genocidal techniqes against the Kikuyu.Goverment of Kenya orders tanks from the Soviets for future use against Odinga's Orange party.Somali Pirates intercept ship load of tanks, which never made it to Kenya.
Interesting, huh?
Thats hope and change you can count on.
And the CIA knows. And they were mugged into silence.
Goverment of Kenya orders tanks from the Soviets for future use against Odinga's Orange party.(To protect Kenyan citizens from a muslim take-over by islamofascists from Somalia) Somali Pirates intercept ship load of tanks, which never made it to Kenya.
Do you remember one Abdid Wali, the ex Marine who campaigned for Keith Elison? Somali by birth, he was supported by obama and campaigned for election in Kenya.
His website and all images have disappeared, naturally...
Ex-Marine Mohamed Abdi (left) focused on Congressman-elect(Minnesota, USA) Keith Ellison’s campaign for the past several months, all the while making important national and international connections for his own bid to the Kenyan parliament.
Ellison is paying back the favor.
He was a keynote speaker at a fundraising event on Saturday, where dozens of Abdi’s friends in the Marines and others from around the world pledged to support him financially and morally.
In the words of one attendee, it was a “mini United Nations gathering in Minneapolis for the sake of a man who vies to represent Mandera East,” a small town in the porous border between Somalia and Kenya, in the elite-dominated Kenyan parliament.
Abdi, who moved to the U.S in 1995, resembles the United Nations in many ways.
He grew up in the Somali-inhabited Northeastern region (NFD) in Kenya.He’s fluently multilingual in English, Swahili and Somali. He’s a dual U.S and Kenyan citizen, who can probably easily obtain a Somali citizenship...
http://muruleonline.blogspot.com/2006/12/mohamed-abdiwalian-aspiring-mandera.html
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