Monday, November 17, 2008

Yo ho ho and a barrel of oil!

This story doesn't have anything to do with American politics, but damn!:

Pirates have seized a Saudi-owned supertanker fully laden with oil off east Africa, capturing the biggest vessel yet in a shipping zone where Somali pirates strike almost daily, the U.S. navy said.

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The Sirius Star held a cargo of as much as two million barrels of oil -- more than one quarter of Saudi Arabia's daily production.
The Somali pirates have been completely out of control for a while, but they just took piracy to a whole new level.

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