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Finnish navy catches suspected Somali pirates Wed Apr 6, 2011 10:50am GMT Photo 1 of 1Full Size HELSINKI (Reuters) - The Finnish navy detained 18 suspected pirates on a boat in the Arabian Sea on Wednesday and is questioning them as part of international efforts to combat piracy in the region. "This morning Pohjanmaa stopped suspected pirates in the Arabian Sea, some 500 miles southeast of Oman's Salalah," Commander Pasi Staff from the Finnish navy's operations division told Reuters. The Finnish ship Pohjanmaa has been protecting shipping in waters off Somalia since February as part of a European Union Naval Force (EU NAVFOR) operation. "A vessel was towing two smaller boats and when the Pohjanmaa approached it, the vessel tried to escape and warning shots were fired to stop it," Staff said, adding the commander of Pohjanmaa suspected the group had been involved in ship hijacking. Somalia has lacked an effective central government for two decades, allowing piracy to boom in the strategic waterways off its shores linking Europe to Asia and Africa. <http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE7350K220110406> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
