Thursday, February 02, 2006

Yo Ho Ho


While George Bush told America "not to worry" that the victory in Iraq was all but assured and the War on Terror was progressing he missed this little fact.

That the destabilization of the region has now, for the first time, made Iraq is a hotbed of piracy.

Iraq stood out "as a new world piracy hotspot," with 10 attacks in 2005 after none the year before.

"Opportunists whose main motivation is robbery and financial gain, and who use extreme violence towards crews in most cases perpetrate these attacks," the IMB report said.

Most of Iraq's attacks were on vessels anchored near the Basrah oil terminal and Umm Qasr off the country's southeastern coast, it said.



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