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NAIROBI, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- Somali pirates have hijacked a Saudi Arabian-owned oil tanker, the largest vessel ever seized, loaded with crude and carrying 25 crew members off the Kenyan coast, a regional maritime official said on Monday.

 

Andrew Mwangura, the East African Coordinator of the Seafarers Assistance Program, said the oil tanker is the largest ship pirates have hijacked along the east Africa coast.

 

"It seems the vessel was hijacked on Saturday because the ship is approaching anchorage off the port of Eyl in Somalia. For it to reach there, it must have taken three to four days," Mwangura told Xinhua by telephone.

 

Reports from the U.S. Navy said the tanker, Sirius Star, operated by Vela International, was hijacked after a group of pirates managed to scale the 10-meter high side of the ship.

 

Lieutenant Nate Christensen, a spokesman for the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet said the hijacking was shocking because it highlighted the vulnerability of even very large ships and pointed to widening ambitions and capabilities among ransom-hungry pirates who have carried out a surge of attacks this year off Somalia.

 

The U.S. Navy said the Saturday's hijacking of the oil tanker occurred in the Indian Ocean far south of the zone patrolled by international warships in the busy Gulf of Aden shipping channel, which leads to and from the Suez Canal.

 

Sirius Star, designed to carry more than two million barrels of crude, "is three times the size of a U.S. aircraft carrier and shows how they are successfully expanding their operations," Christensen said, noting that previous attacks have occurred within 200 nautical miles of land.

 

"We have heard reports that the ship has been freed and we are checking into it, we have no information to confirm."

 

Christensen said the bandits were taking it to an anchorage off the Somali port of Eyl. The port on Somalia's northeastern coast has become a pirate haven and a number of ships are already being held there as pirates try to force ransoms.

 

The ship was sailing under a Liberian flag and its 25-member crew includes citizens of Croatia, Britain, the Philippines, Poland and Saudi Arabia. A British Foreign Office spokesman said there were at least two British nationals aboard the vessel.

 

The waters off Somalia's coast are considered to be some of the world's most dangerous -- pirates have hijacked more than 30 ships this year and attacked many more.

 

Most attacks have been in the Gulf of Aden between Yemen and north Somalia, a major route leading to the Suez Canal linking Europe and Asia.

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crude oil? so they need somebody to add additives ETC to make it 'sellable'

 

isit in international waters? so coudl they claim 'piracy' - remmeber hearing SOME sort of balls about piracy being an international law under certain circumstances? lol

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crude oil? so they need somebody to add additives ETC to make it 'sellable'

 

isit in international waters? so coudl they claim 'piracy' - remmeber hearing SOME sort of balls about piracy being an international law under certain circumstances? lol

 

 

They could always claim parlei if they got caught lol!

 

Theyre olding the oil at ransom, seeing as over 2 million barrels of it is worth a fuckload,and it belongs to someone.

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crude oil? so they need somebody to add additives ETC to make it 'sellable'

 

isit in international waters? so coudl they claim 'piracy' - remmeber hearing SOME sort of balls about piracy being an international law under certain circumstances? lol

 

oh come on aaron!! Crude oil is one of the most, if not THE most sellable commodotie (sp) in existance!!! :pancake:

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crude oil? so they need somebody to add additives ETC to make it 'sellable'

 

isit in international waters? so coudl they claim 'piracy' - remmeber hearing SOME sort of balls about piracy being an international law under certain circumstances? lol

 

oh come on aaron!! Crude oil is one of the most, if not THE most sellable commodotie (sp) in existance!!! :pancake:

 

 

not when its

1. not theirs to sell.

2. plastered ALL over the news.... its not asif somebody from the 'black market' could sneek up behind the cameras and syphen it away lol

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THey're not interested in the oil. THey're interested in ransoming the effect of lossing a quarter of yesterdays world oil production which will effect the cost of petrol substantially, which giving the financial climate could have cost reprocussion costing millions. They'll probably threaten to blow the thing up, rather than look to sell it. Edited by foxdie
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Someone they know will have put money on the price of oil going up or something like that

 

They then hijack boat, price of oil goes through roof as a large amount goes awol.

 

The person they know makes a killing and deposits most of it into an un-traceable bank in somewhere like the Cayman islands (keeps a little for self).

 

They then let the boat go and bugger off sharpish, to a rather comfy retirement (if they manage to escape).

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Someone they know will have put money on the price of oil going up or something like that

 

They then hijack boat, price of oil goes through roof as a large amount goes awol.

 

The person they know makes a killing and deposits most of it into an un-traceable bank in somewhere like the Cayman islands (keeps a little for self).

 

They then let the boat go and bugger off sharpish, to a rather comfy retirement (if they manage to escape).

 

When did you do your Bond Villian training!? :roll:

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I lol'd when I heard this... Anyone reckon its the Top Gear boys filming for the next series? I remember they talked about highjacking a tanker and hiding it in the studio. Although even by their standards thats ambitious... :roll: Edited by hamspeed
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