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Old 01-03-2009, 09:48 AM canarymoon is offline     #2 (permalink)
This is serioius stuf, folks. And VERY profitable for the pirates,, too.

During 2008 there were 111 attacks in the Gulf of Aden. The pirates collected about $150 million in ransom for the captured ships and are still holding 11 ships and 200 crew members

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