Somali marauders operating in the increasingly dangerous waters off East Africa seized a crude oil tanker making a delivery from Saudi Arabia to the United States
Pirates have increased attacks on vessels off East Africa for the millions of dollars in ransom money. While pirates have successfully hijacked dozens of vessels over the last several years, this attack is believed to be only the second ever on an oil tanker.
Several security experts believe the pirates are helping to fund Al-Qaeda operations in that war-torn region.
Meanwhile, on Friday agents with Somalia’s customs bureau seized more than $1-million worth of fake US notes in Mogadishu’s Adan Adde International airport, authorities told local reporters on Saturday.
During a press conference held at the airport, Somalia’s Treasury Minister, Abdulrahman Omar Osman said the fake money was to be smuggled into Somaliland’s capital, Hargeisa, where it was to be used to carry out terrorism attacks.
Somalia’s police spokesman, Dhexe Abdullahi Hassan is quoted as saying that Al Qaeda was the prime suspect and decided to smuggle counterfeit notes after international financial institutions starved the terrorist group of all money supplies.
According to a report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police's Terrorism Committee, Somali authorities plan to destroy the contraband money.
He's former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He's a news writer and columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he's syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. Kouri appears regularly as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Fox News Channel, Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, etc.
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I am don's know how you are considering Young Somalis thugs related to Al-Qaeda. Are you making yourself relevant by coming with these absurd association. Somalis don't give a hoot about your Al Qaeda cousin Mr. Kouri. They are working for themselves. Deal first with the illegal fishing for the last 20 years in the Somali cost by Westerns and Asian pirates.
the media called them pirates but in somalia they called
(burcad badeed)means sea thugs!!!that wil also incl the what western world called illegal fishing and toxic wasters in somali term!they all sea thugs!!!
so we have sea thugs from every where in somalian waters.
and who to blame?
the skinny somali boys with skifts?
or the others?
al qaida has no place in somalia they know that that wil be killd and sold to USA.
so if any one think big burka boys can come here history wil tell.
let us talk about how to solve this issue instead bushing somalia and somali people to the corners,before it's too late....
after poll about somali sea thugs(pirates) showed that 69% of somali people think pirates should be somali navy force!!!
22% said they ar bad people and should be stopeed.
1% nevr hear about pirates!
5% said al shabab can end piracy in somalia!(that was in mogadishu place called gubta)
3%said don't kno.
about 152 pople did this poll in mogadishu and around.
dotom we are on the same skift i guess!
Mr. Kouri I would ask that next time you write that you check your facts. How much sense does it make for Islamist groups like Al-Qaeda and Al-Shabaab to support pirates that attack ships owned by Muslims? It makes none. Trying to link those groups to the pirates and playing up the negligible presence of Al-Qaeda in Somalia is merely an excuse to cover the regional issues under the war on terror and allow the American proxy of Ethiopia to commit human rights abuses and get away with it.
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