i'm beginning to wonder if the somali pirates may have finally overreached when they seized the saudi oil tanker.
sure, they've attacked cruise ships in the past. but who takes a cruise off the coast of somalia?
and yeah, they snatched that a ship filled with heavy weaponry. but the weapons were probably just going to feed the sudanese civil war. the pirates may have done us a favor by preventing that shipment from going through.
sure, their actions have disrupted shipments of videogames. but is that a bad thing? maybe the those kids will pick up a book instead.
but you don't fuck with the world's oil supply. this attack in particular has a lot of scare potential as the tanker was seized 450 nautical miles southeast of mombasa, that's a long way from the somali coast (mombasa itself is quite a bit south from the somali border). if pirates are going that far afield in every direction, that would place a lot of the gulf oil shipments in jeopardy. if they keep this up and particularly if there's a noticeable effect on world oil prices, the world powers will probably come down pretty hard on them.
