Are there still real pirates?
YES!!!! around somalia there are pirates that still have hostages held captive for ransom…here is a news article of one of the newest of the stories about them: Somali Pirates Hijack DryShips Coal Carrier in Aden (Update1) Email | Print | A A A By Alaric Nightingale Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) — Somali pirates seized a ship carrying coal through the Gulf of Aden, according to DryShips Inc., the vessel’s owner. The Saldanha was captured yesterday while sailing west through the gulf that links Asia and Europe, said a security officer at Athens-based DryShips who declined to give his name. The vessel had taken maximum security measures to avoid attack and followed all advice given by coalition military forces, he said today by telephone. Somali piracy attacks surged in 2008, including the hijacking of the fully loaded Saudi Arabian supertanker Sirius Star and a ship carrying tanks. In response, an international coalition of U.S., NATO, United Nations and European Union states has dispatched wa
