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German navy foils pirate attacks off Somali coast: Berlin

German frigate Karlsruhe.
by Staff Writers
 Berlin (AFP) Nov 18, 2008
 A German frigate has foiled the attempted seizures by heavily armed bandits of two ships in the increasingly pirate-infested seas off northern Somalia, the navy said on Tuesday.

On Monday the Ethiopian cargo ship Andinet radioed for help, saying it was under attack from two small motorboats in the Gulf of Aden 650 kilometres (400 miles) north-east of Djibouti and 50 kilometres south of the Yemeni coast, the German navy said in a statement.

The German frigate Karlsruhe, which was 20 kilometres away, dispatched a Sea Lynx helicopter and the two motorboats "left at high speed," the statement said.

On Tuesday the British tanker Trafalgar radioed for help after coming under attack by eight or nine speedboats. The Karlsruhe again sent its Sea Lynx and the pirates again fled, it said.

Over the past year there has been a sharp rise in the number of pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden, around the tip of lawless Somalia which juts into the Indian Ocean and commands access to the Red Sea and the Suez Canal.

Experts believe that few ships are now safe from pirates in the Indian Ocean. A Saudi super-tanker carrying 100 million dollars worth of oil was hijacked on Saturday and on Tuesday was anchored off Somalia.

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PILLAGING PIRATES
Saudi super-tanker taken to Somali pirate lair
 Mogadishu (AFP) Nov 18, 2008
 A hijacked Saudi super-tanker, carrying 100 million dollars of oil, anchored Tuesday off a notorious Somali pirate port as sea gangs struck again and seized a Hong Kong cargo ship.






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