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Message no. 1
From: hivemind hivemind@********.rr.com
Subject: Cyberpirates, anyone?
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 05:57:36 -0500
I found this while reading a HK paper online. For those of you who don't
read the full article, the ship was boarded by 20 pirates armed with guns
and SWORDS. I'm not naive, but I didn't think that this really went on
these days.




Saturday, June 17, 2000
Hijacked tanker found near Lamma Island
NIALL FRASER

A hijacked tanker whose 18 crew members were taken hostage by armed pirates
then set adrift on a makeshift raft has been recovered just outside Hong
Kong waters after a four-month international investigation.

The Panamanian-registered 3,729-tonne MT Global Mars was located and
identified just south of Lamma Island yesterday by an SAR search and rescue
aircraft. It was acting on a tip-off from the International Maritime
Bureau's Piracy Reporting Centre in Paris.

To read the full article, click here:
http://www.scmp.com/News/HongKong/Article/FullText_asp_ArticleID-20000617021
252556.asp
Message no. 2
From: LDYTinne@***.com LDYTinne@***.com
Subject: Cyberpirates, anyone?
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 23:20:06 EDT
In a message dated 6/18/00 5:57:57 AM Central Daylight Time,
hivemind@********.rr.com writes:

<< I found this while reading a HK paper online. For those of you who don't
read the full article, the ship was boarded by 20 pirates armed with guns
and SWORDS. I'm not naive, but I didn't think that this really went on
these days. >>

Oh Yeah! Much more happens that is very shadowrunnish than you would want to
think about.

Tinne

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