Since I’m still celebrating International Talk Like A Pirate Day, I checked into what modern piracy is like. No, not the current financial bailout, although it’s close. I mean good old fashioned criminal piracy on the high seas, as practiced today. The Beeb tells of Life in Somalia’s pirate town:
Whenever word comes out that pirates have taken yet another ship in the Somali region of Puntland, extraordinary things start to happen.
File photo of assailants who attacked a cruise ship off the coast of Somalia in 2005
Pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia have been surgingThere is a great rush to the port of Eyl, where most of the hijacked vessels are kept by the well-armed pirate gangs.
People put on ties and smart clothes. They arrive in land cruisers with their laptops, one saying he is the pirates’ accountant, another that he is their chief negotiator.
We need to let Ethiopia conquer that whole worthless country.