The Indian Navy has sunk a pirate "mother ship".
My initial response to this news is: India has a navy? Does Britain know about this? Didn't Britain used to have a navy?
It's nice to see some progress, though.
Evidently 3 more ships have been taken by pirates since Monday. Clearly these guys don't rest on their laurels. Or on their recently-captured tankers filled with over $100,000,000.00 of oil.
The tanker has reportedly been taken to the "Somali pirate lair of Harardhere".
The only Somali pirate lair of which I was aware is Eyl. And I've stared at Eyl on google-maps a bit. Looks like a small town composed of walled compounds.
Google maps can't find Harardhere at all.
But wikipedia can! Looks like Harardhere is about halfway between Eyl and Mogadishu.
Ah, google maps spells it differently: Here's the longitude and latitude for "Harardera".
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