{"id":70859,"date":"2017-03-14T10:51:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T14:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70859"},"modified":"2017-03-14T10:52:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T14:52:56","slug":"pirates-take-oil-tanker-in-5th-fleets-ao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70859","title":{"rendered":"Pirates take oil tanker in 5th Fleet&#8217;s AO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2017\/03\/14\/officials-say-pirates-hijack-freighter-in-latest-test-for-trump.html\">Fox News<\/a>, about 20 pirates boarded the Aris 13 which was transporting oil from Djibouti to Somalia&#8217;s capital, Mogadishu. It happened in the US Navy 5th Fleet&#8217;s area of operations;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An official said no ransom demand had been made.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The vessel&#8217;s captain reported to the company they were approached by two skiffs and that one of them they could see armed personnel on board,&#8221; the official said. &#8220;The ship changed course quite soon after that report and is now anchored.&#8221; The official spoke on condition of anonymity as no one was authorized to speak publicly about the incident.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear who owned the ship or there it was flagged. Steed said it was UAE-owned and Sri Lankan-flagged, but the Middle East-based official said it was Greek-owned and Comoros-flagged with plans to re-flag it to Sri Lanka.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Fox article speculates on whether this is a test for the Trump Administration. If the US Navy gets involved, it won&#8217;t end well for the pirates &#8211; I don&#8217;t think there will be much discussion about that.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Mick for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Fox News, about 20 pirates boarded the Aris 13 which was transporting oil from &hellip; <a title=\"Pirates take oil tanker in 5th Fleet&#8217;s AO\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70859\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pirates take oil tanker in 5th Fleet&#8217;s AO<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}