Just saw another interesting article:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1011867/posts Cases of piracy at sea leap, Indonesia worst (some by Al Qaeda)
In July it reported three attempted boardings in less than a week, with pirates firing automatic weapons at two gas tankers and an oil tanker.
Western intelligence agencies and maritime security experts have gone further. Some have linked al Qaeda, or militant groups associated with it, to piracy in Indonesia's waters.
Some experts say al Qaeda showed its nautical strategy and sophisticated seaborne attack capability by bombing the Limburg oil tanker off Yemen in 2002 and U.S. warship USS Cole in 2000.
Jemaah Islamiyah, a group whose goal is to create an Islamic state enveloping Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the southern Philippines, has also been identified by experts as capable of hijacking a supertanker and exploding it in the strait.
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This last possibility can have major impact on world commerce and economy. Mansoor Ijaz talked about it a few times on FoxNews.
Bump for the morning. It's time for this buck-a-roo to head for the old bunkhouse.