Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Piracy About As Brazen As It Can Be

Well, the punks managed to hijack a $100 million ship laden with likely $200 million of oil. And it wasn't as if this ship was a remote loner way out at sea. They nabbed this one 350 miles southeast of Muscat in the Gulf Oman, basically right at the doorstep to the Persian Gulf, where 40% of the world's sea-borne oil transits. The only more brazen it could get is if they boarded the ship at the dock and sailed off with it. Civilization is asleep.

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