Somalia:Pirate asset to be frozen.

Harardhere 11 Fabaury 2009 Waagacusub Media

There is ongoing plan to freeze the assets of Somalia pirates’ chief Mohamed Abdi Hassan known ‘Afweyne’ mean big mouth, according to the senior Western intelligent in horn of Africa.

The scout said they are involving in an investigation on great Somali businessmen linking to the pirate leader those are now trading on his asset.

Assets of the Somali businessmen linking to the pirate chief will be frozen as the traders in Dubai, and Uganda and India will be on court, according to the agent’s statement.

Hassan, who was the first pirate that hijacked the Japan owned ship off Somalia coast, has been living in India 2006 to 2008 and for the past six months he was hiding in Hargeysa, the capital of the Somalia’s northwest break away republic of Somaliland, anti-piracy officers told Waagacusub Media.

Hassan now is in the pirate dominated town of Harardhere where he received huge profits from the ransoms paid by the owners of the vessels hijacked off the lawless coast in Somalia.

Hassan owns 19 speed boats and 100 militiamen who daily go for piracy off the shore.

Residents in the town said Hassan, the pirate chief is now busy recruiting militiamen that can carry out more hijackings on the ships and also he was testing weapons which unloaded from the Ukrainian ship that recently released for three million dollars of ransom.

For the last two and half year absence from the southern Somalia, the work was being done by his son named as Abdukadir Afweyne.

The piracy acts off Somalia coast threatened the commercial ships and blocked the humanitarian route for millions of hungry Somalis.

In Harardhere, Waagacusub reporter met some pirate officers and they told him that they are forming as a government.

“We want to set up a local administration under the control of the pirates which will govern Harardhere to Hobyo town; we want to work on the developments in the region. We defended the region against the Islamist terror groups of Al-Shabab,” pirate Chief Hassan.


He said he is patriotic man. I went to India for two-year study and now I retuned back to my country to continue his work of keeping the sea against any ship try to steal the resources,” said Hassan.

The town is filled by hundreds of pirates as the narcotic leaf of Khat brought daily to the town, militias seem to be giving up the act of putting up road blocks and now get all their strengthens to the sea to find more money, Waagacusub reporter said.

By Dahir Abdulle Alasow

dahiralasow@yahoo.com

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