Another busy day on the high seas off Somalia. CNN:
Dutch naval forces captured seven pirates and freed 20 captive fishermen after tracking the pirates to their "mother ship" in the western Gulf of Aden on Saturday, a NATO maritime spokesman said.Clearly a lot more needs to be done but little by little progress is being made. More importantly, we're seeing multiple countries working together in the troubled region.
The Belgian government tried to communicate with the Pompei "without success" before the ship was confirmed to have been hijacked, according to an official.
"This morning we received two different channels, a silent alert, that there was a problem on the boat, which is a Belgian boat on it's way to Seychelles," Belgium Government Crisis Center spokesman Peter Martens told reporters. "We tried to have a contact with the ship but without success until now."
