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es, the whole story of the Faina , its hull full of Russian weapons for American allies in Africa, hijacked by pirates off the Somali coast is major good stuff, matey. Rrrrr. But there’s a better one, this time with the Iranians. And chemical weapons.
This from The Times (of South Africa this time):
A tense standoff has developed in waters off Somalia over an Iranian merchant ship laden with a mysterious cargo that was hijacked by pirates.
Somali pirates suffered skin burns, lost hair and fell gravely ill “within days” of boarding the MV Iran Deyanat. Some of them died.
Andrew Mwangura, the director of the East African Seafarers’ Assistance Programme, told the Sunday Times: “We don’t know exactly how many, but the information that I am getting is that some of them had died. There is something very wrong about that ship.”
The vessel’s declared cargo consists of “minerals” and “industrial products”. But officials involve...
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October 29, 2008
TEHRAN - Iran’s main shipping firm has told its vessels to install barbed wire on their decks and put crew on watch against pirates in the Gulf of Aden, it said on Wednesday.
The bulk carrier Iran Deyanat, owned by Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL), was hijacked on Aug. 21, one of numerous ships hijacked by pirates in the waters off the Horn of Africa. It was freed on Oct. 10.
International shipping officials say the attacks are threateni... more
Somali pirates hijack Thai fishing boat, 16 crew
By EILEEN NG,Associated Press Writer AP - 35 minutes ago
KUALA LUMPUR , Malaysia - Pirates hijacked a Thai fishing boat with 16 crew members off the coast of Somalia, the eighth ship to be seized in the area in the past two weeks, a maritime official said Wednesday.
The boat was seized Tuesday in the Gulf of Aden, said Noel Choong, who heads the International Maritime Bureau’s piracy reporting center in Kuala Lumpur. Also... more
The Indian navy said Wednesday its warship dedicated to fighting pirates had successfully fought off an attempted pirate attack in the Gulf of Aden, but it was a rare victory in a snowballing battle against Somalia’s emboldened pirates.
An official press release said a suspected pirate ship with two speed boats in tow approached the INS Tabar late Tuesday, threatened to blow up the warship, and opened fire. Indian naval officers saw well-armed men roaming the ship’s deck.
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hen we train corporate execs for media confrontations, one of the reporters we always prepare them for is the one we’ve called the endlessly barking dog.
You may know him as Charles Gibson.
Reporters that are endlessly barking dogs ask the same question multiple times. There are only two reasons why they do this. First, they hope that in one of the answers the interviewee will make a misstatement that will make a good lead for the next day’s story. Second, they hope t... more
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logging on the West Coast has its advantages. In February I can blog while it’s beautiful and warm outside, for example. I can read news at 11 p.m. while others, particularly those nasty East Coast bloggers, are sound asleep.
Trouble is, there’s rarely anything going on at 11 p.m. Pacific Standard Time that would interest anyone except for folks in Tokyo, Beijing and Mumbai, where it’s happenin’ time.
So I sit here at 6:24 p.m., waiting for the next six minutes... more
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ou can put lipstick on a bunch of biased, hypocritical ideologues, but they’re still the New York Times political reporting staff.
As discussed in Media Bias 2008 #53 , the supposedly objective reporters at the NYT don’t want you to confuse for one moment Sarah Palin’s tough-minded determination to successfully push through a natural gas pipeline deal with an actual accomplishment. They helpfully provide this insight :
The pipeline exists only on paper. The firs... more
Media Bias #53 From: cheatseekingmissiles.com Post Date: 2008-09-11 06:26:37
Pipeline Prejudice
Sarah Palin cut through walls of entrenched politics and bulldogged a pipeline deal through, so that one day natural gas from Alaska could be delivered to the mainland. That much is undeniably true, but lest one confuse her feat with an actual accomplishment on a par with, say, organizing a community to demand more hand-outs, the NY Times assures us :
The pipeline exists only on paper. The first section has yet to be laid, federal approvals are years away and the pipel... more
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