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Article: Stolen tanks add urgency to piracy fight.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- September 30, 2008
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Byline: Rob Crilly Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
Nairobi, Kenya -- American and European warships surrounded a hijacked Ukrainian freighter anchored off the coast of Somalia Monday, after the MV Faina - with its cargo of Russian tanks, antiaircraft guns, and rocket-propelled grenades - was snatched last Thursday by pirates apparently linked to Somalia's Islamist movement.
The prospect of insurgents controlling a ship loaded with weapons seems to have prompted international navies to get serious about fighting piracy in what have become the world's most dangerous waters.
"The sheer volume of weapons on board, and the fact that it ...