От	В. Кашин
К	All
Дата	02.12.2008 16:00:00
Рубрики	Локальные конфликты;

К вопросу о пиратстве

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Добрый день!

Пираты чуть не захватили американский круизный лайнер с более чем 1000 человек на борту, судно прибавило ход и смогло от них оторваться. Если у них получится захватить подобный корабль в будущем - это ИМХО будет иметь обширные и непредсказуемые последствия.

Somali pirates fail to hijack US cruise liner
By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY, Associated Press Writer Elizabeth A. Kennedy, Associated Press Writer 1 hr 20 mins ago

NAIROBI, Kenya – Pirates near Somalia chased and shot at a U.S. cruise liner with more than 1,000 people on board but failed to hijack the vessel, a maritime official said Tuesday.

The liner, carrying 656 international passengers and 399 crew members, was sailing in the Gulf of Aden on Sunday when it encountered six pirates in two speedboats, said Noel Choong who heads the International Maritime Bureau's piracy reporting center in Malaysia.

The pirates fired at the passenger liner but the larger boat was faster than the pirates' vessels, Choong said.

"It is very fortunate that the liner managed to escape," he said, urging all ships to remain vigilant in the area.

The U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet, based in Bahrain, said it was aware of the failed hijacking but did not have further details.

Ship owner Oceania Cruises Inc. identified the vessel as the M/S Nautica.

In a statement on its Web site, the company said pirates fired eight rifle shots at the liner as it sailed along a maritime corridor patrolled by an international naval coalition, but that the ship's captain increased speed and managed to outrun the skiffs. All passengers and crew are safe and there was no damage to the vessel, it said.

The Nautica was on a 32-day cruise from Rome to Singapore, with stops at ports in Italy, Egypt, Oman, Dubai, India, Malaysia and Thailand, the Web site said. Based on that schedule, the liner was headed from Egypt to Oman when it was attacked.

The liner arrived in the southern Oman port city of Salalah on Monday morning, and the passengers toured the city before leaving for the capital, Muscat, Monday evening, an official of the Oman Tourism Ministry said Tuesday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

The head of a shipping agency branch in Salalah had contact with the liner there.

"They talked about pirates opening fire at their ship off the Somalian shores," Khalil Shaker told The Associated Press by telephone. He said he had no details of the attack.

International warships patrol the area and have created a security corridor in the pirate-infested waters under a U.S.-led initiative, but the attacks have not abated.

In about 100 attacks on ships off the Somali coast this year, 40 vessels have been hijacked, Choong said. Fourteen remain in the hands of pirates along with more than 250 crew members.

In two if the most daring attacks, pirates seized a Ukrainian freighter loaded with 33 battle tanks in September, and on Nov. 15, a Saudi oil tanker carrying $100 million worth of crude oil.

Ukraine's Foreign Ministry spokesman Vasyl Kyrylych said Monday that negotiations with Somali pirates holding the cargo ship MV Faina are nearly completed, the Interfax news agency reported.

A spokesman for the Faina's owner said Sunday that the Somali pirates had agreed on a ransom for the ship and it could be released within days.

Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, and pirates have taken advantage of the country's lawlessness to launch attacks on foreign shipping from the Somali coast. Around 100 ships have been attacked so far this year.

Somali prime minister Nur Hassan Hussein said Tuesday that his country has been torn apart by 18 years of civil war and cannot stop piracy alone.

"The piracy problem is part of the legacy of the situation of the country. This 18 years of civil war is followed by disorder," Hussein told The Associated Press in an interview in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.

Stopping piracy is "not something Somalia can do alone. This needs a tremendous effort," he said.

Hussein has appealed for international troops, as his government's Ethiopian allies have said they would pull out their forces by the end of the year.

The Ethiopians are all that has stood between the shaky administration and Islamic insurgents who have seized control of all of southern Somalia except for the capital and the parliamentary seat of Baidoa.

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Associated Press writers Eileen Ng in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Saeed al-Nahdy in Muscat, Oman, contributed to this report.

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С уважением, Василий Кашин

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От	astro-02
К	В. Кашин (02.12.2008 16:00:00)
Дата	04.12.2008 12:07:01

Сомали - генератор "форс-мажора"

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Выглядит сомнительно, чтобы феномен сомалийского пиратства стал делом рук энтузиастов из Сомали и только их самих. Возможно, речь идет о международной системе - своеобразном генераторе "форс-мажора", средстве взимания денег со страховых компаний, и т.д.
В этом случае Сомали - это такой
"удобный флаг" для международного пиратства". В стране единой власти нет, спросить не с кого.

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От	kievpapa
К	В. Кашин (02.12.2008 16:00:00)
Дата	03.12.2008 22:46:52

A kak oni na nego zabratsya hoteli?(-)

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От	RuLavan
К	В. Кашин (02.12.2008 16:00:00)
Дата	02.12.2008 16:12:17

Не ново...

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> Пираты чуть не захватили американский круизный лайнер с более чем 1000 человек на борту, судно прибавило ход и смогло от них оторваться. Если у них получится захватить подобный корабль в будущем - это ИМХО будет иметь обширные и непредсказуемые последствия.

Самому интересно, что будет если дойдёт до такого числа заложников. Но само по себе это не ново. Ещё в 2005 году сомалийцы атаковали круизный лайнер Seabourn Spirit, который отбился звуковыми пушками, но получил РПГ в борт.
http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=20930

Врут, поди, как всегда...

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От	Ibuki
К	RuLavan (02.12.2008 16:12:17)
Дата	03.12.2008 12:53:22

Аль-Каида

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>Самому интересно, что будет если дойдёт до такого числа заложников. Но само по себе это не ново. Ещё в 2005 году сомалийцы атаковали круизный лайнер Seabourn Spirit, который отбился звуковыми пушками, но получил РПГ в борт.
Аль-Каиде нужно идею подкинуть. Как они после самолетов до круизных лайнеров и супертанкеров не дошли, ума не приложу...

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От	Llandaff
К	Ibuki (03.12.2008 12:53:22)
Дата	03.12.2008 13:05:41

Кино "Скорость-2" уже было

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>Аль-Каиде нужно идею подкинуть. Как они после самолетов до круизных лайнеров и супертанкеров не дошли, ума не приложу...

так что идея не новая

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От	Зуекщ
К	RuLavan (02.12.2008 16:12:17)
Дата	02.12.2008 16:32:06

Re: Не ново...

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>который отбился звуковыми пушками
Что есть "звуковая пушка" (да и не одна!) на круизном лайнере ?

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От	RuLavan
К	Зуекщ (02.12.2008 16:32:06)
Дата	02.12.2008 16:48:56

Sonic cannon :-))

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>>который отбился звуковыми пушками
>Что есть "звуковая пушка" (да и не одна!) на круизном лайнере ?

На нём были установлены LRAD - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_range_acoustic_device, вот как на Queen Mary 2 на этой фотографии: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:LRAD.JPG


Врут, поди, как всегда...

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