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Iranian Cargo Ship Seized by Somali Pirates
Neil Richard Leslie | November 18, 2008Yet another pirate hijacking. Somali pirates seized an Iranian cargo ship loaded with 33,000 tons of grain according to Al Jazeera:
Somali pirates have struck again in the Gulf of Aden, hijacking another ship a day after seizing a Saudi oil supertanker with a cargo worth $100m. The Delight, a Hong Kong-registered vessel carrying 33,000 tonnes of wheat, was sailing to Iran with 25 crew members when it was seized, Chinese state news agency Xinhua said.
News of the latest hijack came as the hijackers of the Saudi Sirius Star – the biggest vessel ever hijacked – anchored the vessel off Somalia.The vessel was seized in the Indian ocean off East Africa on Sunday in the boldest attack by pirates operating from lawless Somalia. "We can confirm the ship is anchoring off the Somali coast at Haradheere," Lieutenant Nathan Christensen, a spokesman for the US Fifth Fleet, said on Tuesday.
The hijacking of the Delight comes only a day after the Sirius Star was seized along with its $100m cargo of oil. It is the seventh successful hijacking in the past 12 days. A British tanker also came under attack yesterday, but the pirates were thwarted when the German frigate Karlsruhe launched a helicopter to intercept them. Eight or nine speedboats of heavily armed bandits attacked the British tanker Trafalgar, which radioed the German ship for help. It sent a Sea King and the pirates fled, the German navy said.
