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| Subject: Anarcho-Capitalist NEWS: Thousands of private security guards protect shipping in the Indian Ocean Tue Sep 11, 2012 9:41 pm | |
| FORMER Australian military personnel are among thousands of private security guards who have been hired to protect commercial shipping in the Indian Ocean against attacks by Somali pirates.
In a growing free-for-all on the high seas, merchant shipping operators are turning to what are effectively private navies to safeguard their vessels and cargoes.
A Lowy Institute military analyst, James Brown, says as many as 2700 armed guards are operating aboard merchant ships plying the Indian Ocean trade routes.
Most are British or American but ''contractors from Australia and New Zealand are common too because their military training is interoperable with the US and UK'', he says. Advertisement
Some countries are also getting into the private security business, hiring out small elements of their navies to escort commercial vessels along the most dangerous sections of the trans-Indian Ocean voyage.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/private-militias-take-on-pirates-20120911-25qnk.html#ixzz26DQQbnOc
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