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Saturday, September 27, 2008

Korean Naval Warship to Be Deployed to Somalia

Last April, Somali pirates hijacked the French luxury yacht Le Ponant in the Gulf of Aden. After a three-day standoff, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France dispatched the Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale (GIGN), which is considered to be Europe’s top special-forces unit.

The president also had the yacht’s owner send a ransom in the amount of US$2.0 million to the pirates. Once the 30 hostages were released, 50 members of the special-forces unit swooped in by helicopter and recovered the money, as well as capturing six pirates to take back to France for trial.

Located along the route of a crude-oil pipeline connecting the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean and with Somalia itself racked by civil war, the Somali coastline has become one of the world’s top places for piracy.

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