The Pirates of Somalia_ Inside Their Hidden World - Jay Bahadur [130]
The half-finished house of the pirate leader Kadiye, on the outskirts of Garowe. (Courtesy the author)
A pardoned prisoner receives one million Somali shillings (approximately $30) before being released. The same day, I interviewed three inmates sentenced to life in prison for piracy. (Courtesy Mohamad Farole)
A pirate in the central pirate base of Hobyo, October 2008. (EPA)
Constanţa, Romania: the largest port on the Black Sea. (Courtesy the author)
Two packages containing ransom money parachute (top right) towards the MV Faina, a Ukrainian tank transport captured by pirates in September 2008. (US Navy)
Combined Task Force 150 (CTF-150), a US-led coalition assigned to combat Somali piracy in 2008. (US Navy)
Wanini Kireri, the warden of Shimo La Tewa prison in Mombasa, Kenya, where more than one hundred suspected pirates currently await trial. (Courtesy the author)
Abdiwahid “Joaar” Mahamed Hersi, director general of the Puntland Ministry of Fisheries, enjoying a break from the office. (Courtesy the author)
The Japanese chemical tanker MV Golden Nori is refuelled by the USS Whidbey Island after being released by pirates led by Abdullahi “Boyah” Abshir, December 2008. (US Navy)
The destroyer USS Bainbridge tows the lifeboat of the Maersk Alabama, the first US-flagged vessel attacked by pirates in two hundred years, April 2009. (US Navy)
Pirates aboard a mothership, two attack skiffs in tow, surrender to US Navy forces, April 2009. (US Navy)
The Maersk Alabama’s Captain Richard Phillips poses with Commander Frank Castellano of the USS Bainbridge, shortly after Bainbridge snipers rescued Phillips from his three Somali captors. (US Navy)
In November 2008, the Saudi oil supertanker MV Sirius Star was captured by pirates belonging to Mohamed “Afweyne” Abdi Hassan’s “Somali Marines.” (US Navy)
A US Coast Guard detachment boards a pirate mothership, May 2009. (US Navy)
Abdiweli Muse, lone surviving hijacker of the Maersk Alabama, in New York facing trial, May 2009. In February 2011, Muse was sentenced to thirty-three years and nine months in federal prison. (Getty Images/AFP)
Suspected pirates surrender to the USS Vella Gulf, February 2009. (US Navy)
A pirate in Hobyo, October 2008. (Mohamed Dahir/AFP/Getty Images)
The destroyer USS Farragut sinks an attack skiff after taking eleven pirates into custody, March 2010. (US Navy)