Somali Pirates hijack Indian vessel with Indian sailors

[MUHARIB]

MUMBAI/DUBAI: Somali pirates hijacked a tanker managed by an Indian firm with 21 Indian sailors on board on Saturday while it was being loaded at a port in the Gulf state of Oman, India's government shipping agency and a Gulf shipping source said.

The Directorate General of Shipping said the M.V. Fairchem Bogey, an chemical-oil tanker managed by Mumbai-based Anglo-Eastern Ship Management, was hijacked while anchored in Salalah port. It gave no further details.

A Salalah-based shipping source said the vessel was about to be loaded with methanol when it was hijacked early in the morning.

"The ship has been hijacked by Somali pirates from Salalah port and might already be on the way to Somalia," the source in Salalah told. "The ship was at Salalah anchorage since yesterday evening."

There was no immediate comment from Salalah port.

Oman lies at the mouth of the Gulf, a strategic, heavily patrolled waterway which channels a bulk of the world's crude shipments.

Somali pirates behind similar vessel hijackings usually operate in Indian Ocean waters, but in January, a 20,586-tonne Algerian-flagged bulk carrier was seized about 150 miles southeast of Salalah.

The ship, with 27 crew from Algeria, Ukraine and the Philippines, was heading to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, from Salalah with a cargo of clinker.

gulfnews : Somali pirates hijack ship with 21 Indian sailors from Oman

Bad Shi!t.

 

[Roybot]

WTF! Hijacked from the port These pirates are getting more and more daring.

 

[MUHARIB]

How in the world is that even possible???

 

[Imran Khan]

wow brave men come oman for take it lolz

 

[OrionHunter]

How in the world is that even possible???

The LeT and other Pakistan based terror groups had chalked out plans for hijacking Indian flagged ships for huge amounts of ransom. The money would then be used to fund terror activities. LeT is active in fund-raising across the Middle East and has a considerable presence there.

 

[Imran Khan]

The LeT and other Pakistan based terror groups had chalked out plans for hijacking Indian flagged ships for huge amounts of ransom. The money would then be used to fund terror activities. LeT is active in fund-raising across the Middle East and has a considerable presence there.

award of stupid post of 2011 go to mr................ LET LET LET LET LET i think LET run india

 

[MUHARIB]

The LeT and other Pakistan based terror groups had chalked out plans for hijacking Indian flagged ships for huge amounts of ransom. The money would then be used to fund terror activities. LeT is active in fund-raising across the Middle East and has a considerable presence there.

LeT is buddies with the skinhead pirates?? I dint know that. Well they do have b@!!z more then our stupid netas.

 

[Roybot]

UPDATE 2-Somali pirates hijack ship with 21 Indian sailors from Oman | Reuters

Aug 20 (Reuters) - Somali pirates hijacked a tanker managed by an Indian firm and with 21 Indian sailors on board on Saturday from an Omani port, India's government shipping agency and a Gulf shipping source said, the second such incident in the Gulf Arab state's waters since January.

The Directorate General of Shipping said the Fairchem Bogey, a chemical-oil tanker managed by Mumbai-based Anglo-Eastern Ship Management, was hijacked while anchored in Salalah port, and the Salalah-based shipping source said the vessel was being loaded with methanol when it was seized.

The port's operator, APM Terminals, however, said pirates boarded the vessel while it was two miles off the coast of Oman, awaiting a berth, and comandeered it towards Somalia. Tom Boyd, director of external communications at APM Terminals, told Reuters there were no reported injuries or deaths among the crew, adding that the Omani government was negotiating with the pirates.

"The Omani authorities are in discussion with the pirates. Government leaders have met this morning at the palace of the Sultan of Oman. At 8.28 a.m. the vessel sailed in the direction of Somalia," Boyd said.

ug 20 (Reuters) - Somali pirates hijacked a tanker managed by an Indian firm and with 21 Indian sailors on board on Saturday from an Omani port, India's government shipping agency and a Gulf shipping source said, the second such incident in the Gulf Arab state's waters since January.

The Directorate General of Shipping said the Fairchem Bogey, a chemical-oil tanker managed by Mumbai-based Anglo-Eastern Ship Management, was hijacked while anchored in Salalah port, and the Salalah-based shipping source said the vessel was being loaded with methanol when it was seized.

The port's operator, APM Terminals, however, said pirates boarded the vessel while it was two miles off the coast of Oman, awaiting a berth, and comandeered it towards Somalia.

Tom Boyd, director of external communications at APM Terminals, told Reuters there were no reported injuries or deaths among the crew, adding that the Omani government was negotiating with the pirates.

APM Terminals has a 30 percent share in Salalah port and operates it for the government.

"The Omani authorities are in discussion with the pirates. Government leaders have met this morning at the palace of the Sultan of Oman. At 8.28 a.m. the vessel sailed in the direction of Somalia," Boyd said.

 

[Imran Khan]

LeT is buddies with the skinhead pirates?? I dint know that. Well they do have b@!!z more then our stupid netas.

indians problem is they can not be clear .any thing happen you guys collect all names LET ISI Pirates ULFA etc etc etc Pirates has no relation with any god damn jihadi group

 

[T90TankGuy]

i think this is a first . them coming into the harbor and hijacking a ship.

 

[harpoon]

I think the world should come together and mount an air raid on Somalia. Target: Anything that floats.

 

[TOPGUN]

The LeT and other Pakistan based terror groups had chalked out plans for hijacking Indian flagged ships for huge amounts of ransom. The money would then be used to fund terror activities. LeT is active in fund-raising across the Middle East and has a considerable presence there.

Eh mr not so smart plz leave Pakistan out it we have nothing to do with this bs... these somali pirates get it right go learn something before opening your mouth.

 

[OrionHunter]

award of stupid post of 2011 go to mr................ LET LET LET LET LET i think LET run india

That's the problem of discussing serious issues with kids like you who have no idea what the heck is really going on. Cloistered in your capsule of denial, guys like you laugh off everything without ascertaining facts. Just shows immaturity at incredible levels. Stop reading comics for a change and start getting serious to avoid exhibiting ignorance that'll put a 3rd grader to shame!

And your smileys says it all! Jeeez! Now read this and get educated rather than trashing everything that concerns terrorists harbored and trained in Pakistani terror camps - like the LeT.

Al-Qaida's plan to hijack oil tankers

Should we be concerned by suggestions that terrorists are taking clues from the Somali pirates and considering hijacking ships across the Indian Ocean for reasons other than ransom? Absolutely. As attacks move further eastwards, toward Oman and India, concerns mount.

Intelligence gathered from bin Laden's hideout revealed that al-Qaida realized the tankers would have to be boarded so explosives could be planted inside them. Small cargo barges and fishing boats have been attacked by militants, some of whom have taken diving lessons that Filipino authorities suspect were preludes to maritime attacks. In March 2010, Singapore's navy raised its security alert, warning that an unspecified terrorist group was planning attacks on oil tankers and other vessels in the Malacca Strait, which separates Malaysia from the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

SOMALI pirates are reported to have reached a multi-million-dollar deal with Islamic militants, allowing them a cut of future ransom payouts in return for anchorage at Harardhere, a port controlled by al-Shabaab fighters.

The agreement, sealed last week by the release of pirate chiefs imprisoned by al-Shabaab, threatens to pour insurance money from the shipping industry directly into the terrorist organisation that has close links to al-Qa'ida.

The knock-on effect of any pirate deal with militants could effectively transform insurance companies into unwitting terrorist bankrollers whose terms of business would be in violation of anti-terrorist legislation across Europe and the US.

Now I don't have more time to waste on dummies. Check out the internet for more details. And I don't need to rub it in when we all know the strong linkages between various terror groups especially between the Al Qaeda and LeT.

DENY IGNORANCE!




Al-Qaida's plan to hijack oil tankers possible, but experts say tankers not so easy to blow up - 1310News
Somali pirates to pay militants | The Australian

 

[Sugarcane]

The LeT and other Pakistan based terror groups had chalked out plans for hijacking Indian flagged ships for huge amounts of ransom. The money would then be used to fund terror activities. LeT is active in fund-raising across the Middle East and has a considerable presence there.

You forgot ISI and Army there. How it is possible to do such thing without support of ISI?

 

[Sugarcane]

That's the problem of discussing serious issues with kids like you who have no idea what the heck is really going on. Cloistered in your capsule of denial, guys like you laugh off everything without ascertaining facts. Just shows immaturity at incredible levels. Stop reading comics for a change and start getting serious to avoid exhibiting ignorance that'll put a 3rd grader to shame!

And your smileys says it all! Jeeez! Now read this and get educated rather than trashing everything that concerns terrorists harbored and trained in Pakistani terror camps - like the LeT.




Now I don't have more time to waste on dummies. Check out the internet for more details. And I don't need to rub it in when we all know the strong linkages between various terror groups especially between the Al Qaeda and LeT.

DENY IGNORANCE!




Al-Qaida's plan to hijack oil tankers possible, but experts say tankers not so easy to blow up - 1310News
Somali pirates to pay militants | The Australian

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