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...those things that isn’t a problem anymore—much like polio, pantaloons, and the threat of the Visigoths sacking Rome. However, 2008 is shaping up to be a banner year for Somali pirates who operate around the Gulf of Aden. The IMB reports that so far in 2008 there have been 92 pirate attacks on ships compared with 31 last year and 10 in 2006. The problem has grown so serious that insurers last May declared the Gulf of Aden a “war risk” zone and increased the premiums of ships traveling...
...roughly the same value as those of 1998, then I’d suggest looking to the high seas ,where this year seems more like 1708. Two days ago, pirates seized a Hong Kong-registered cargo ship, the Delight, in the Gulf of Aden. According the International Maritime Bureau (IMB), the Delight, which is now bearing toward Somalia, joins 17 other ships currently being held by pirates. This week has been particularly successful for piracy: Last weekend buccaneers captured a Japanese-operated chemical and oil tanker as well as a Saudi supertanker, which holds roughly $100 million worth...
...Cheesy! If you're feeling peckish in Midtown Manhattan you might try wandering into the IMB Building's atrium at East 56th Street and Madison Avenue to nosh on a mozzarella tasting menu. Obika looks like a take-out sushi joint, but it's an Italian restaurant chain focused on cheese, specifically its handmade Mozzarella di Bufala Campana. The porcelain white (the yellow mozzarella in your supermarket was made from cow's milk, not buffalo's), slightly briny balls are paired with grilled vegetables and prosciutto. If you just want a sandwich to go, the menu also includes paninis. Look...
...Drawing on years of research and information provided by sources ranging from local police to informers, the IMB believes that about five criminal syndicates?probably based in Indonesia and Malaysia?are responsible for most of the larger-scale hijackings like that of the Luen Fatt. And though there are still plenty of local fishermen armed with machetes who board ships, steal a few mobile phones and leave, more sophisticated operations run by the syndicates are becoming the norm. "Previously, attacks were isolated and mounted from one or two boats, but now they are much more coordinated, with pirates using five...
...Even without such scenarios, piracy in the Strait of Malacca is already exacting a human toll. "It's becoming more and more violent," says Noel Choong, director of the IMB's Piracy Reporting Centre. The cause is an outbreak of kidnapping for ransom by pirates in the strait, which most recently saw four sailors spirited away from a tugboat in October (two of the men are still missing). In the worst such incident, off the coast of northern Sumatra, four crew members were killed in January after negotiations between their kidnappers and the ship's owners broke down. "We have...