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...house had begun to vibrate with alarming regularity. When 18-year-old Nikita went to the toilet she found she couldn't sit down because the seat was bucking so badly. The glass doors on the veranda were bowing inward; Karl tried to calm his 13-year-old son Aden, while his wife Jenny put down towels to stop the sideways rain from entering the house. It was then that Larry's 200 km/h winds swept over their roof and vacuumed it upward...
...prepared when the vessel arrives, information that the Navy keeps closely guarded since it could be invaluable in the hands of terrorists. The suicide bombing of the Cole, for instance, occurred less than three hours after the ship had completed mooring in the harbor of Aden, Yemen. ?It would have been much more difficult for the bombers to execute the attack without some previous knowledge of the ship's schedule and its intent to pull into Aden,? says a former Navy officer...
...high seas, the waters off Somalia are among the world's most alluring. Somalia has lacked an effective central government for 14 years, and the U.S. believes that al-Qaeda--linked militants operate there. Combined Task Force 150, a multinational naval unit, patrols in the nearby Gulf of Aden and the waters around the Horn of Africa, searching for suspected terrorists who may be moving equipment or people by sea or planning a maritime attack. But with its attention focused on stopping terrorists, the U.S. Navy has been hesitant about pursuing pirates who roam the area. Commander Jeff Breslau...
...only that the number of attacks off Somalia has jumped from last year, when just two were reported, but that Somali pirates are becoming more aggressive and skillful. In the past, most of the attacks in the region were on fishing boats close to shore in the Gulf of Aden off northern Somalia. But over the past year or so pirates have moved south and have begun to strike at ships further out at sea. Until 2003, the International Maritime Bureau's Piracy Reporting Center in Kuala Lumpur recommended that ships stay at least 50 nautical miles from the Somali...
...Somalia, which boasts the longest coastline in Africa, is no easy place to monitor. Combined Task Force 150, a joint naval unit that includes forces from the U.S., Germany, France and sometimes Britain and Italy, already patrols the Gulf of Aden and the waters around the Horn of Africa, searching for suspected terrorists who may be moving equipment or people by sea or planning a maritime attack. The reduced number of pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden is a "side effect of Operation Enduring Freedom," says Commander Dirk Gross at the German Defense Ministry in Berlin. Commander Jeff Breslau...