UK Hostages on Saudi tanker named

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Previous Saturday a Saudi oil tanker has been seized by Somali pirates. It is the Sirius Star. It can be loaded with 2million barrels of oil which is worth more than £67 million. The tanker was attacked near the Kenyan coast. On this tanker are 25 crew members of which two of them from the UK. Their names have been tracked and they are Peter French and Peter Grady. Their families hope that Peter and James will return soon. Negotiations have begun and Frank Gardner from the BBC said that the pirates want to get rid of the load as soon as possible. The last thing they want is a bloodbath so probably the crew gets away unharmed. The amount of attacks by pirates on vessels is rising. This year more that 90 took place.

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It's possible that 'pirates' become a new threat for trading ships. Apparently it allready is but you don't hear a lot about it in the news yet. Many people are suprised to hear about pirates. I also thought that pirates were long gone history. But when you think about it, it's not a strange idea because especially the oil-vessels are worth a lot, lot of money. These vessels are not very well protected yet so it's probably not very hard to hijack them. The problem could be easily solved though by trainging and arming the crew of the ships and/or guard the vessels by the navy.