November 19, 2008by Dani Reshef
GlobalJihad.net
The 320,000 ton Saudi-owned super tanker has been hijacked, on Monday 11/17/2008, in waters off East Africa and is heading towards the coast of Somalia. The Sirius Star' was carrying two million barrels of oil - a quarter of Saudi Arabia's daily exports. The hijacking took place around 800 km South-East of Mombasa, Kenya.
In response, realizing the potential danger to world economy but also the possible benefit that Islamic Militants, operating in Somalia against the pro-Western regime, can yield from maritime piracy in the region, an international fleet of NATO, USA and Russia began to patrol the Indian Ocean along the Somali coast, North of Kenya and South of Yemen.
The hijacking of the Sirius Star' occurred over 1000 km south to the area where the international fleet is patrolling, which indicates that the pirates did their home work and adapted themselves to the new situation very fast.
In lawless Somalia it is almost certain that although the pirates themselves are, probably, not jihadists or any other political ideology but common crime gang members, part of their gains will, eventually, support terror, since they cannot operate without the sponsorship of the local militias, who control the Somali coast, especially in the South in front of the large open Indian Ocean. All over the world there is a connection between organized international crime and drug gangs and the financing of terror.
It seems that the international community has no choice but to form a large international fleet, under one command, authorized by UN and the countries in the region, mainly Kenya, Yemen, Oman and Saudi Arabia, to overcome the new piracy threat.---------------------------------------------------------
