Pirates Attacked the Wrong Ship — Armed Marines Tu…
Pirates Attacked the Wrong Ship — Armed Marines Tu…
MOGADISHU, Somalia — At 4:45 a.m. on a moonless November morning, deep within the international waters of the Somali Basin, the chemical tanker Stolt Sagaland was cutting through the swells at a steady 13.5 knots. Five days out from the industrial port of Al Jubail on the Persian Gulf, the $78 million vessel and its specialized cargo of hazardous petrochemicals were tracking toward East Asia. To anyone looking at the official port manifests or customs declarations back in Saudi Arabia, the ship was a standard merchant prize: slow, heavily laden, and manned by a routine civilian crew of 23 mariners.
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