Admiral stunned by 'very good' pirates


	Admiral stunned by 'very good' pirates

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11-18-2008 4:46 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7bab9c82-102f-45b3-aee7-d892dd4e14e2/CBA267ED-AA66-4828-95CC-D92F0730AD6A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/pirates-are-very-good/2008/11/18/1226770413138.html" href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/pirates-are-very-good/2008/11/18/1226770413138.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.smh.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/pirates-are-very-good/2008/11/18/1226770413138.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.smh.com.au/img/29677F92-F7D2-469E-9946-4661AE439FD0" alt="Hijacked ... The giant tanker Sirius Star." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/pirates-are-very-good/2008/11/18/1226770413138.html"><P>Hijacked ... The giant tanker Sirius Star.<BR /><SMALL>Photo: <EM>AP</EM></SMALL></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/pirates-are-very-good/2008/11/18/1226770413138.html"><P>The top US military officer says he is "stunned" by the reach of
Somali pirates who seized a Saudi supertanker - the size of a US
aircraft carrier - 730 kilometres off the coast of Africa.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/pirates-are-very-good/2008/11/18/1226770413138.html"><P>Admiral Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, called piracy a growing problem that needed to be
addressed.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/pirates-are-very-good/2008/11/18/1226770413138.html"><P>But he said there were limits to what the world's navies could
do once a ship had been captured because national governments often
preferred to pay pirates ransom.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/pirates-are-very-good/2008/11/18/1226770413138.html"><P>"I'm stunned by the range of it, less so than I am the size,"
Admiral Mullen said of the seizure of the Sirius Star on Sunday by
armed men.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/pirates-are-very-good/2008/11/18/1226770413138.html"><P>The huge, oil-laden prize was about 730 kilometres east of Kenya
when it was boarded, he said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/pirates-are-very-good/2008/11/18/1226770413138.html"><P>That is the furthest out at sea that a ship has been seized in
the latest surge of piracies, Admiral Mullen said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/pirates-are-very-good/2008/11/18/1226770413138.html"><P><DIV>He said the pirates were "very good at what they do".</DIV>

"They're very well armed. Tactically, they are very good.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CBA267ED-AA66-4828-95CC-D92F0730AD6A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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