Pirates and Somali Port
Bad stuff people. ACJ
Pirates seize ship; two attacks foiled
Turkish maritime officials said pirates commandeered a Turkish chemical tanker with 14 Turkish personnel aboard Wednesday off the coast of Yemen. The Karagol, bound for India, was carrying 4,500 tons of unspecified chemicals. On Tuesday, Russian and British forces repelled a pirate attack on a Danish cargo vessel off Somalia in the first action by a Russian warship sent to bolster international forces fighting a plague of hijackings in coastal waters vital to global commerce. Separately, Indian commandos from the Indian warship INS Tabar foiled similar attacks on a Saudi Arabian chemical tanker and an Indian vessel.
Threat made to close border
North Korea’s military announced it will shut the country’s border with the South on Dec. 1 —- a marked escalation of threats against Seoul’s new conservative government. The North also said it will allow U.S. nuclear inspectors to review documents and interview engineers at its main nuclear complex in Yongbyon, but will bar them from taking soil and nuclear waste samples —- considered critical to weapons program monitoring.
Militia captures second major port
A Somali Islamist militia seized a key port town Wednesday, giving it control of most of southern Somalia and sidelining the weak government. The capture of Merka, 56 miles from the capital, Mogadishu, means the hardline al-Shabab militia now holds both major ports with airstrips south of the capital.
