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Navy Crowdsources Pirate Fight To Online Gamers
OK, so it’s not exactly Call of Duty: Somali Coast. Your avatar won’t get its SEAL Team Six on and shoot pirates in the head. But the Navy still wants you — yes, you, gamer — to join in its ...
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Pirate-Fighters, Inc.: How Mercenaries Became Ships’ Best Defense
Somali pirates have outrun the world's navies, and are still hijacking ships in the Gulf of Aden. So now shipping companies are turning to guns-for-hire for protection. The mercenaries may be better...
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Pirate-Fighting Mercs Arrested in Africa for Carrying Guns
The ship-protection biz is booming -- and is also rife with risk. It's not just the AK-47-wielding pirates. Carrying guns aboard commercial ships has the potential to cause all kinds of legal problems,...
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New Somalia Attack Could Jeopardize U.S. Shadow War
Five years after the U.S. backed a disastrous Ethiopian invasion of Somalia, Washington is considering supporting another ill-conceived incursion into the war-torn East African nation -- this one by...
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Somali Abduction Squad Takes American; How Will the U.S. Respond?
A campaign of kidnapping that began at sea with Somali pirates has expanded onto land and across Somalia’s borders. Pirates and their allies in the Somali terror group al-Shabab have begun targeting...
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Iranian Sailors Take Pirate ‘King’ Captive: Report
An absolutely wild showdown in the northern Indian Ocean between Somali pirates and the Iranian navy appears to have ended with with the Iranians taking one of the world's most infamous pirates captive.
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Pentagon Wants Web Apps to Stop Piracy, for Some Reason
The Navy's far-out research wing thinks it's found a way to cut down on the scourge of maritime piracy: apps. Commence the face-palming.
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Climate Studies Show: Somali Pirates Take Summer Vacations, Too
It's the first full week of summer, which most of us are probably thinking about how to get away to escape the heat, relax, and maybe hit a wave or two. Well, it turns out that Somali pirates take a ...
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8,000 Miles, 96 Hours, 3 Dead Pirates: Inside a Navy SEAL Rescue
A 2009 pirate standoff that could have ended in military disaster was instead resolved bloodlessly for the U.S., thanks in large part to a small team of far-flying, night-parachuting, tireless,...
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Somali Pirate Kingpin Calls It Quits as Hijackings Plummet
The dread Somali pirate Mohamed Abdi Hassan called a press conference Thursday to announce his retirement. He picked a good time to get out of the game: piracy is way, way down.
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