The costs of Somali piracy are rising fast. The Sunday Times spoke to a young pirate in a costume aboard the Sirius Star supertanker, hijacked eight days ago over 400 miles out in the ocean off Kenya. He is demanding a $17m ransom for the ship, which is carrying $100m worth of oil.Another pirate cutthroat with scruples, he said that the two British seamen among the 25 crew being held hostage were unharmed.
“The British are okay and we don’t have any problems ” said Muhammad Dashishle, 24. “All the people we captured with the ship are okay.”
The risk of a violent clash remains, however. An Islamic extremist group has threatened to seize the ship and Dashishle said the hijackers would fight any attack. “We have plenty of men to defeat them,” he said.
As incidents of piracy proliferate and ransom demands soar, politicians and shipping lines around the world are growing more and more alarmed - and trade is being disrupted.
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