Comments on: Beware! There Be Pirates Ahead! http://madisonian.net/2007/08/03/beware-there-be-pirates-ahead/ a blog about law, tech, culture, and related things Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:59:42 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: MASOODAHMAD AKHTAR http://madisonian.net/2007/08/03/beware-there-be-pirates-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-224108 MASOODAHMAD AKHTAR Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:02:29 +0000 http://madisonian.net/archives/2007/08/03/beware-there-be-pirates-ahead/#comment-224108 HAVE ABOUT THE MISSING SHIP REEF AZANIA SATURDAY, JULY 21, 2007 Ships Still Missing, Somali Pirates Suspected A St. Vincent and Grenadines- flagged cargo ship has been missing for three weeks and despite rescue efforts, it still has not been found.[1] Andrew Mwangura, director of the Mombasa-based East African Seafarers Assistance Program, said the MV Reef Azania vanished 20 days ago after leaving Dubai carrying tons of general cargo for delivery in Seychelles and Zanzibar.[2] Mwangura said the ship owners have not located the vessel which had 12 crew members -- eight Tanzanians and four Indians -- onboard.[3] "The MV Reef Azania left Dubai 20 days ago and was to deliver cargo to Seychelles and then to Zanzibar but no one knows where the sailors are……[we] don't know where the vessel went missing but intense efforts were underway to establish the fate of the missing ship," said Mwangura.[4]If it is confirmed that the MV Reef Azania was seized by Somali pirates, it would bring the number of foreign vessels held off Somali Coast to five on the year, making this coastline one of the world’s most dangerous.[5] Four ships are currently held by Somali pirates -- two from South Korea, one from Denmark and one from China's Taiwan province, while two others are reportedly missing off the coast of Somalia.[6] More than ten ships had been hijacked off the coast of Somalia since this year.[7] The surge in piracy in the waters off the Somali coast, one of Africa's longest and one of the world's most dangerous, has sparked off global outcry with the United Nations calling for international action to combat Somalia's "plague of piracy," saying it threatened vital aid deliveries to some 1 million people.[8] Under 18 U.S.C. § 1651, whoever commits the crime of piracy, as defined by the law of nations, and is afterwards brought into or found in the United States, shall be imprisoned for life. Piracy is one of the handful of crimes for which Universal Jurisdiction is available.[9] Federal criminal defense attorney Douglas McNabb has previously discussed, at length, the transnational crime of piracy at sea in his blog, here. And more specifically we have discussed Somali pirates, here. here. Labels: Piracy posted by McNabb Associates, P.C. @ 12:02 PM HAVE ABOUT THE MISSING SHIP REEF AZANIA
SATURDAY, JULY 21, 2007
Ships Still Missing, Somali Pirates Suspected
A St. Vincent and Grenadines- flagged cargo ship has been missing for three weeks and despite rescue efforts, it still has not been found.[1] Andrew Mwangura, director of the Mombasa-based East African Seafarers Assistance Program, said the MV Reef Azania vanished 20 days ago after leaving Dubai carrying tons of general cargo for delivery in Seychelles and Zanzibar.[2] Mwangura said the ship owners have not located the vessel which had 12 crew members — eight Tanzanians and four Indians — onboard.[3]

“The MV Reef Azania left Dubai 20 days ago and was to deliver cargo to Seychelles and then to Zanzibar but no one knows where the sailors are……[we] don’t know where the vessel went missing but intense efforts were underway to establish the fate of the missing ship,” said Mwangura.[4]If it is confirmed that the MV Reef Azania was seized by Somali pirates, it would bring the number of foreign vessels held off Somali Coast to five on the year, making this coastline one of the world’s most dangerous.[5]

Four ships are currently held by Somali pirates — two from South Korea, one from Denmark and one from China’s Taiwan province, while two others are reportedly missing off the coast of Somalia.[6] More than ten ships had been hijacked off the coast of Somalia since this year.[7]

The surge in piracy in the waters off the Somali coast, one of Africa’s longest and one of the world’s most dangerous, has sparked off global outcry with the United Nations calling for international action to combat Somalia’s “plague of piracy,” saying it threatened vital aid deliveries to some 1 million people.[8]

Under 18 U.S.C. § 1651, whoever commits the crime of piracy, as defined by the law of nations, and is afterwards brought into or found in the United States, shall be imprisoned for life. Piracy is one of the handful of crimes for which Universal Jurisdiction is available.[9]

Federal criminal defense attorney Douglas McNabb has previously discussed, at length, the transnational crime of piracy at sea in his blog, here. And more specifically we have discussed Somali pirates, here.

here. Labels: Piracy
posted by McNabb Associates, P.C. @ 12:02 PM

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