Posts Under ‘pirates’ Category

The Amira Chronicles (Case of the Missing Photo)

October 5, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in pirates, Somalia | 6 comments

The woman who I profile in this Sunday’s Washington Post magazine enjoyed a brief flurry of media attention in late 2008. Several news outlets reported that Somalia pirates had turned to Michele Ballarin, a North Virginia businesswoman, to help negotiate the release of two ships that had been seized off the coast of Somalia. How…Continue Reading…

Pirate Booty

December 3, 2009 by Keith Kloor | Filed in pirates, Somalia | 1 comment

All that pirate action in Somalia has created a booming “stock market” of sorts. Foreign Policy thinks this might help shine a necessary spotlight on the Big Fish behind all the hostage-taking. Elsewhere, these masterminds are referred to as “a few deep-pocketed financiers.”  And who would they be?