Hijacked arms to top House debate today

[Robbien]

Source: The Standard-UK

As Parliament reopens today faced with a rich agenda for debate, it will first have to dispense with a move seeking leave to discuss the controversial hijacked arms cargo off the Somalia coast.

Members of the Defence and Foreign Relations committee said yesterday that they would seek to adjourn the Business of the House to discuss the issue that has brought international focus on Kenya, following allegations that the arms were destined for Southern Sudan and not Kenya.

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Keynan said the committee is greatly concerned with the cargo aboard the MV Faina ship and the little attention it seems to be getting locally. MV Faina was seized off the coast of Somalia on September 25, as it sailed to Mombasa Port with 33 T-72 tanks and assorted armaments.


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And from the Spiegel
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,582513,00.html

When they boarded the Faina, Ali and his men did not have to search long before finding the freighter's valuable cargo. A T-72 combat tank, measuring a full 9.5 meters (31 feet) long, from its stern to the muzzle of its cannon, a 41-ton steel colossus, is hard to miss. There were 33 of the tanks on the two decks of the Faina, enough military equipment from Ukraine to fill a medium-sized military parade.

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Ali's small-time gangsters, in their sneakers, have climbed up onto a world stage normally reserved for bigger players. In the ensuing drama, the boundaries between the good guys and the villains have become difficult to discern, primarily because there may not in fact be any good guys. In this production, the pirates are the equivalent of pickpockets who had the bad luck of stealing a mafia godfather's briefcase.

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The Pirates Spoiled the Deal

Officially, the Ukrainian T-72 tanks were designated for Kenya. But now there is mounting evidence that the tanks on board the Faina were en route to Sudan via Kenya. If this is true, it would be embarrassing for Ukraine and devastating for Kenya, whose president likes to portray himself as a peacemaker. At any rate, it looks as though pirate Ali and his men spoiled the deal.

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Both Karpacheva and Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko are calling for an investigation of the Faina affair. The fact that Tymoshenko has become involved is, perhaps, not surprising. She has long been engaged in political battle with President Viktor Yushchenko, whose supporters in the Ukrainian intelligence service, the SBU, have long lined their pockets by selling off the remains of the former Soviet arsenal throughout the world.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Who's the bigger pirate?

:freak:

[Robbien]

2. Pick one

Ukraine stole arms from Russia or bought them from Russia's black market.
Ukraine sold arms to Sudan who is supposed to be banned from buying arms under peace truce agreement.
UK and the US is protecting Ukraine and the US is trying to protect the illegal arms shipment.
The Somalian elite funding the pirating of ships off the Horn of Africa coast.
Entrea who allows free passage of cargo in its ports.
Kenya who is supposed to be in charge of the Sudan peace situation.

Am I missing anyone? Oh yeah, the pirates themselves.

Pick one. Heck, pick them all.