Somali Pirates Kidnap Danish Family

Somali Pirates Kidnap Danish Family Transcript by www.newsy.com BY JACQUELINNE MEJIA Youre watching multisource world news analysis from Newsy For what is believed to be the first time Somali pirates have kidnapped children. The pirates hijacked a sailboat carrying a Danish family off the coast of east Africa. The Danish government says a couple and their three children, ages 13, 15 and 17, were seized last Thursday. (Video CBS) The latest incident in the recent string of pirate hijackings involves the Johansen family from Kalundborg, Denmark. The Johansen family detailed their trips journey on SailBlogs. In an eerie twist of fate, the last entry on Feb. 23 read as follows... [translated] Rane and Viktor have spent half an hour to explain fishing line this morning. Jan has sent a thousand email again to the chieftain people, and we have NOT been drilled by pirates. As the world watches the fate of the family, reporters and bloggers are questioning the root cause of these attacks. An expert on Somali piracy discusses the global effects of the attacks with an anchor on Fox News. This is a problem that is now affecting not just the individual victims, like the four Americans and this Danish family, but also threatening commerce, the flow of oil, theres currently a tanker being held that was bringing in over 2 million barrels of oil to the United States [...] ... [...] the international community so far has not incentivized the pirates to behave differently. Theres very little possibility of getting ...

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