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Voltaire Network
August 22, 2017
Piracy off the coast of Somalia triggers a significant risk to ships sailing between the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean. Officially, this phenomenon escapes .... Thus in 2007 the company Blackwater, (now Xe), acquired MV McArthur a former ship of the US coastal guard. It is equipped with two helicoptersÃÂ ...
TIME
September 26, 2008
It wouldn't be the first time that pirates in Somalia may have stumbled upon a cargo that was bigger than they could imagine. Last August, pirates seized the MV Iran Deyanat, a ship owned by the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines. Somali officials contend that the ship had been carrying weaponsÃÂ ...
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