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Somali pirates take to wingsuiting, bringing hell from above. You will be amazed by THE SOMALI PIRATE 3 - WHITE STAR EMPIRE! The link to purchase the e-book on Amazon is here: www.amazon.com
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...to the authorities in the north of Somalia's capital Mogadishu September 24, 2012. REUTERS/Omar Faruk NAIROBI (AlertNet) – Somalia risks exporting more pirates and terrorists because mass unemployment among its youths has deprived a generation of hope and...
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AlertNet
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/frustrated-idle-youth-in-somalia-a-threat-to-the-world-un
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...structures. But despite being on the backfoot, the militants still control swathes of southern and central Somalia, while pirates, regional administrations and local militia group also vie for control chunks of the largely lawless Horn of Africa country. The...
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The Star Malaysia
http://thestar.com.my.feedsportal.com/c/33048/f/534559/s/2346ec5a/l/0Lthestar0N0Bmy0Cnews0Cstory0Basp0Dfile0F0C20A120C90C110Cworldupdates0C20A120E0A90E10AT212352Z0I30IBRE88912I0IRTROPTT0I0A0IUK0ESOMALIA0EPOLITICS0Gsec0FWorldupdates/story01.htm
Real combat between Russian navy and Somali pirates. Meanwhile in Russia. We upload only those videos for which we have obtained permission from the copyright holder/owner. If you have any interesting or funny video and you want it to be published in this channel, please contact us (we pay for the video). We welcome video suggestions from our viewers, and if you have any questions feel free to ask. If you own the copyright to any video, posted on this channel and this video was mistakenly posted without your permission, please contact us. E-mail:: meanwhilerussia@gmail.com Мы загружаем только те видео, на которые мы получили разрешение от правообладателя / владельца. Если у вас есть интересное или смешное видео и вы хотите, чтобы оно было опубликовано на этом канале, свяжитесь с нами (мы платим за видео). Мы приветствуем любые предложения и пожелания от наших зрителей и если у вас есть какие-то вопросы, не стесняйтесь спрашивать. Если вы обладаете авторскими правами на какое-либо видео, размещенное на этом канале и это видео было по ошибке размещено без вашего согласия, пожалуйста, свяжитесь с нами. E-mail: meanwhilerussia@gmail.com Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com Google+ plus.google.com Мы ВКонтакте vk.com
A rare video showing a Russian Navy warship destroying a Somali pirate boat. Video source: ochevidets.ru Stabilized version Original: www.youtube.com
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...so many merchant ships are carrying armed guards (who also augment the lookouts, and more frequently spot and identify pirates before they get too close.) The international anti-piracy patrol off Somalia has dozens of warships and maritime patrol aircraft...
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Strategy Page
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htseamo/articles/20120906.aspx
And They get burn
After nearly two years in captivity, a South African couple is freed from Somali pirates. CNN's Nkepile Mabuse reports. For more CNN videos, check out our YouTube channel at www.youtube.com Or visit our site at www.cnn.com
Some of somali pirates .. Subscribe plz :)
Piracy off the Somali coast is estimated to be costing the shipping industry nearly $7bn (£4.4bn). Along with the growing terrorist threat, it is one of the main reasons David Cameron has convened this week's Somalia conference in London. Over 100 seafarers and several ships are currently held for ransom in often atrocious conditions. Frank Gardner has become the first British journalist to be allowed aboard an Australian maritime patrol aircraft, as it flew a counter-piracy mission over the Somali Basin.
Fighting Somali Pirates
Face to face with a Somali pirates
This private security force does it right! o No screwing around with "waiting to be fired upon". o No ACLU - types looking over your shoulder. o No lame snivel rights complaint restrictions. o Just get the job done - Turn the boat and the occupants into Swiss cheese! Listen to the voices carefully. At the beginning of the video, a voice say something about "warning shots" and then opens up full-auto on the pirates boat. Now THAT'S how it should be done!!! Notice that after firing on the attack boat, it falls behind the ship & remains [literally] "Dead in the water"! Near the end of the video, when it looks like they're firing at the horizon; they are actually sending some "lead kisses" to the Somali mother-ship. The security force doesn't expect the bullets to cause any damage at that distance - just saying "Hi !". Bear in mind that Somalis often rape, mutilate [cut off an arm or leg with machetes] or kill captives. They give animals a bad name.
On board security team engage Somali Pirates. Does this conform to the Rules of Engagement; is it excessive or the way Maritime Security Companies should operate? Have your say.
This video is property of NATO TV. The Danish warship HDMS Absalon has freed 12 hostages and taken on board 16 suspected pirates off the coast of Somalia. It is a successful end to their six-month deployment under NATO's Operation Ocean Shield. But Denmark now faces a dilemma. Unless a country in the region can be persuaded to take them ashore and prosecute them, the suspects will have to be set free again in Somalia. See more at www.ilstv.com
The Danish warship HMDS Absalon has freed 12 hostages and taken on board 16 suspected pirates off the coast of Somalia. It is a successful end to their six-month deployment under NATO's Operation Ocean Shield. But Denmark now faces a dilemma. Unless a country in the region can be persuaded to take them ashore and prosecute them, the suspects will have to be set free again in Somalia.
Private Security HEROS use Machine Guns to fend off attempted boarding of Somali Pirates ( SAVAGES ) trying To hijack ship off the Coast of Somalia...
Private security guards shoot Somali pirates
RUSSIAN NAVY CAPTURES SOMALI PIRATES How about that - The Russians captured the Pirates, tied them up, put them on the boats, then set them all on fire - puff no more Pirates! This video shows Russian Navy commandos on a Somalian pirate ship shortly after the pirates had captured a Russian oil tanker. The Euro Union navy that patrols these waters would not interfere because they feared there could be casualties. All explanations are in Russian with a single exception of when a wounded pirate says something in English and the Russian soldier says "This is not a fishing boat". All conversations between the commandos are in Russian. If you don't understand Russian, the pictures speak for themselves. The soldiers freed their compatriots and the tanker. The Russian Navy Commandos moved the pirates back to their own (pirate) ship, searched the pirate ship for weapons and explosives and then they left the ship and exploded it with all remaining pirates hand-cuffed to it. The commandos sank the pirate ship along with the pirates and without any court proceedings, lawyers etc. That is, they used the anti-piracy laws of the 18th and 19th centuries where the captain of the rescuing ship has the right to decide what to do with the pirates. Usually, they were hanged. I would think from now on, Russian ships will not be targets for Somali pirates.
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Somali pirates
As Somali piracy grows as a threat for vessels sailing in the Gulf of Aden, an increasing number of ships are using armed security teams to protect themselves.
Hilarious clip where Carlos Mencia talking about somali pirates (from "new territory 2011")
American threatened by pirates following Jessica Buchanan's Navy SEAL rescue. For more, click here: abcnews.go.com
Navy SEAL Team 6 rescues Jessica Buchanan and Danish hostage Poul Hagen from Somali Pirates. The special forces team that swept into Somalia last night to rescue two aid workers was the elite military group called SEAL Team 6. Officially, the team's name is classified and not available to the public, technically there is no Team 6. The Tier-One counter terrorism force similar to the Army's elusive Delta group, Team 6's missions rarely make it to paper much less the newspaper. Of course, all that changed following the May 2 raid at Osama bin Laden's compound when Team 6 became front page news. The members of Team 6 are all black operatives. They exist outside military protocol, engage in operations at the highest level of classification and often outside the boundaries of international law. The development of SEAL Team 6 was in response to the 1980 rescue attempt of American hostages held in Iran after the US Embassy takeover by the Iranian government regime.
"US Navy SEALs parachuted into Somalia under cover of darkness early Wednesday and crept up to an outdoor camp where an American woman and Danish man were being held hostage. Soon, nine kidnappers were dead and both hostages were freed. President Barack Obama authorized the mission by SEAL Team 6 two days earlier, deploying the same unit that killed Osama bin Laden last year...".* Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks. *www.huffingtonpost.com Subscribe to The Young Turks: bit.ly Find out how to watch The Young Turks on Current by clicking here: www.current.com The Largest Online New Show in the World. Google+: www.gplus.to Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com
The first Somali-Based Pirates movie giving a inside look into the world of piracy. The movie will be a hollywood hit starring several big name actors as well as actual on the ground footage of the life of young somali kids living in east Africa. It is set to premiere in movie theaters around the world June 2012
It's one of the most dangerous places on earth- a coastline infested with Somalia pirates. But that didn't stop Jay Bahadur. For three months he wandered through Somalia, meeting pirates and documenting their stories. 16x9's Antony Robart caught up with Canada's "Pirate Man" to talk about his journey into the unknown.
Footage recorded by the Ministry of Defence shows the Royal Navy capturing a suspected pirate dhow in the Indian Ocean.
Bored on deployment off the coast of somalia and this is the result!
UK links to al Shabaab grow as global conference looms To see more go to www.youtube.com Follow us on Facebook (goo.gl or Twitter (www.twitter.com As Somali piracy refuses to go away, why does the international community seem powerless to stop it? Despite occasional shows of strength, local Somali fishermen believe that maybe they don't really want to. "If they were serious about tackling piracy they would have solved it ages ago", argues the Somali coastguard. For them it is obvious: the Western ships have reasons other than pirates for wanting to patrol these waters. They believe the Somali seas have become a playground for Western navies to test arms, protect illegal fishery or just polish up their international image. A predominance of large warships seem to support their claims. "These vessels are enormous; we have small maneuverable boats, we can get away fast", one pirate tells us. July 2011
The marine/sailor boarding party was apparently ambushed, with the pirates opening up on the RHIBs at close range..the firefight resulted in two somali pirates killed, 16 captured and 16 Iranian sailors being freed. No info about casualties on our side, assumed none wounded.
the russians know how to treat the pirates. WHY DO YOU LIE TO ME? this is not a fishing boat LOLOL somalilandpress.com
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...continued to climb despite the presence of about 35 international warships patrolling the waters off the lawless Somalia coast. Pirates currently hold more than 300 hostages taken from ships attacked off East Africa in the last several months. Eleven suspected...
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The State
http://www.thestate.com/2010/05/08/1278125/taiwanese-vessel-hijacked-by-pirates.html#RSS=untracked
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A showdown between Somalia's pirates and the country's most powerful Islamic army was avoided this week, but the standoff shed light on the growing and complicated relationship between the two groups. Somalia's fiercest Islamic group al-Shabaab had
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ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/International/somalia-pirates-islamic-fighters-works-times/story?id=10500912
Eleven Somalis accused of attacking two US Navy ships off the coast of Africa have appeared in a federal court in Virginia on charges of piracy. The men did not enter formal pleas. (April 23)
Rachel describes the fate of five hapless Somali pirates who thought they could capture that BIG ship they discovered in the dark. LOL!!! From MSNBC & msnbc.com
A top official accused of illegally selling arms to Somalia and allegations of a huge government cover-up. That's the scandal engulfing the Baltic state of Latvia, with claims that millions of dollars worth of weapons, including AK47s and rocket launchers, were sold to Somali pirates.
www.ntv.co.ke Somali pirates have seized a UK flagged chemical tanker and a cargo vessel, in the latest incident that underline the continued risk to shipping in some of the world's busiest maritime trade routes. The latest incident came a day after a Chinese and Singaporean ships were released.
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...Turkey, he said. Three hours after the St James Park was hijacked a Panamanian-flagged carrier with 19 crew members was seized by pirates off the southern coast of Somalia. The ship is managed in Greece. Greece's Merchant Marine Ministry said the Navios Apollon...
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Tulsa World
http://www.tulsaworld.com/site/articlepath.aspx?articleid=20091229_298_0_NAIROB242634&rss_lnk=1
This week, 25 sailors aboard a Chinese cargo ship were set free off the coast of Somalia after the pirates who seized them were reportedly paid a $4 million ransom. Daljit Dhaliwal interviews maritime writer Barry Parker, who says that there are still hundreds of people being held hostage by pirates. worldfocus.org
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...by sailors from a nearby warship, the men threw all the gear overboard. With little evidence to convict them, the would-be pirates were let go, along with their boat and enough fuel to get to Somalia. Nothing was done to prevent the men from rearming and trying...
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1399465.html
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...owners typically keep information on ransoms secret. Pirates are still holding hundreds of crew and a dozen vessels hostage in Somalia. Piracy has remained at high levels this year in the busy shipping lanes along the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean near...
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KansasCity.com
http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/1608398.html
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...a seven-figure ransom is paid. The hefty international naval presence, with an average of 20 warships per day cruising off Somalia's coast, is simply not enough to halt the pirates. "It's 2.5 million square miles we're dealing with," said Lt. Matt Allen, a...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09335/1017576-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml
MOXNews.com November 11, 2009 BBC World
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