Outside Reading #9

The article I found was from cnn.com. The title of the article was "Five pirate attacks repelled off Somalia in one day". The article is about ships that have been getting hijacked off of the coast of Somalian by Somalian pirates. Records show that there have been more then sixty ships attacked in the Gulf of Aden just this year, which is two times more then in 2007. The pirates are holding the ships ransom for 18-30 million dollars. This money that the Somalian pirates recieve from the ships is beening put to work and helping out with the Civil war that is going on in Somalia. NATO is doing its best to try to protect UN ships from being hijacked and already has succeeded in dispatching seven of them. These ships were carring food to the Somalian people because of the famine in Somalia. As of now, pirates are still holding a Ukrainian ship that is carrying Soviet-made tanks, grenade launchers adn small arms off of the coast of Somalian and are demanding a ransom of 20 million dollars. For more information on this article go to http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/10/29/somalia.pirates/index.html .