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...Dashishle, the pirate aboard the Sirius Star, concurred: "They just want the Saudi Arabians who own the ship to hear that the Shabab militia wanted to release the ship, because they receive money from some rich Saudis," he said. "But the Shabab doesn't have the strength to attack us and release the ship. It's just simple propaganda...
...happening, we stopped the ship using the weapons we held - we got our weapons ready as if we were going to shoot," Dashishle told TIME. "After half an hour, the ship stopped, and we told it where to go with signals. No one even boarded the ship during the operation...
...Shortly after the Sirius Star was hijacked, the Shabab and other Islamist groups in Somalia denounced its capture on the grounds that it was impermissible to seize a Muslim-owned vessel. They even threatened to attack the pirates and free the ship...
...pirates aboard the Saudi-owned ship and members of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government dismiss these claims as an effort to placate their donors in Saudi Arabia...
...Before the Saudi Arabian ship was kidnapped, there was no conflict and there was no noise from the Shabab, but now a source of their financial help has been touched," a Foreign Ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told TIME. "We understand well that the Shabab wants to protect their ties to Arab countries, especially Saudi Arabia...