Somali pirates

• KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Around 2 a.m. Wednesday, elders in the Somali village of Galkayo said they began hearing an unusual sound: the whirl of helicopters.
(San Jose Mercury News)
• Somali pirates cannot seem to stay out of the news. Whether they are losing their hostages without resistance to a U.S. Navy destroyer or losing their hostages (and their lives) in a U.S.
(New York Times Blogs)
• The SEAL Team Six raid on a pirate compound to rescue an American hostage early Wednesday morning is one signal that the US military is tightening the noose on marauding criminal gangs who kidnap civilians for ransom.
(The Christian Science Monitor)
• In a daring raid reminiscent of the kind used to kill Osama bin Laden, U.S. Navy SEALs swooped into Somalia Wednesday morning and rescued two aid workers, who had been held by pirates for months.
(NPR News)
• Pirate attacks have spiked globally in the first six months of the year to 266 and a majority of these were launched by Somali pirates mostly in the Arabian Sea area, posing a threat to Indias maritime interests.
(Deccan Herald)
• KHARTOUM, Sudan - It was about 2 a.m. Wednesday when elders in the Somali village of Galkayo heard an unusual sound: the whirl of helicopters.
(Pioneer Press)
• MOGADISHU — Pirates are behind the kidnapping of a foreign hostage in central Somalia, a local official said Sunday, with witnesses reporting he had been whisked off to an inaccessible jungle base.
(Google)
• Minutes after delivering his State of the Union address, President Obama called John Buchanan and told him his daughter had been rescued from Somali pirates. Hours earlier, U.S.
(Daily Beast)
• UPDATE: The Associated Press is reporting that the SEALs who rescued the hostages were from the elite Naval Special Warfare Development Group, or SEAL Team VI, which was the same unit whose operators killed Osama bin Laden.
(US News and World Report)
• Jan 15 (Reuters) - The Fairchem Bogey, seized on Aug. 20 by Somali pirates, was released, Indian authorities said on Sunday. The empty tanker with its 21 crew was seized south of Salalah port in the Gulf of Oman.
(Reuters)