Tag: maritime terrorism

  • Seizing Cruise Ships

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    Hundreds of documents were discovered by German cryptologists embedded inside a pornographic movie on a memory disk belonging to a suspected al Qaeda operative arrested in Berlin last year. Amongst them […]

  • Cargo Vulnerable to Terrorists

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    A decade after The Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA) of 2002 was introduced, a new US Government report has criticised efforts to protect global supply chains.   U.S. bound cargo […]

  • Missile strikes near Somalia port

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    A missile hit a beach on Saturday used as a base by al Qaeda linked insurgents who want to topple Somalia’s Western-backed leaders, the government and residents said. A government […]

  • Hostage and Hijack

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    Turkish security forces have killed a hijacker who seized a ferry off the coast east of Istanbul on Friday. Anti-terrorist commandos stormed the vessel at dawn and shot the lone […]

  • Rolling On

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    According to the latest updated 2011 Reported Maritime Security Incidents – The MSR Rolling Total currently stands at: •         563  total number of incidents as at 31 Oct11 •         382 […]

  • Guard Captured

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    GCaptain has been posing an interesting question, just who sends a ship to the waters off east Africa with a one-man, unarmed security force? Apparently the Greek owners of the […]

  • Hornet’s Nest

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    Kenya’s campaign to destroy al-Shabab’s capability to conduct kidnapping raids and damage its piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden was a mistake, J. Peter Pham, director of the Michael […]

  • Cyber Threats

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    While there are calls for shipping to address any physical security weaknesses, there has been a parallel call to on the cyber security. With the growing reliance on electronic systems […]

  • Dirty Cash

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    Cooperation between Somalia’s al Qaeda linked militants and pirate gangs is reported to be growing. The al Shabaab group has become more desperate for funding, the head of the U.N.’s […]

  • Rolling Total

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    According to the latest updated 2011 Reported Maritime Security Incidents – The MSR Rolling Total currently stands at: 506  total number of incidents as at 30 Sep 11 344 incidents […]

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