There they are: Somali suspected to be pirates hold onto their boat in the Indian Ocean near the Gulf of Aden. It is opinion of the Spanish intelligence that pirates are planning attacks on shipping using detailed information provided by unindentified advisors in London with satellite phones. The suspect is enforced by the fact that on 11 May 2009 eleven Somali pirates got arrested after mistaking a French naval warship, the MV FNS NIvose, to be a cargo ship. In fact a Spanish radio network, Ser Cadena, identifies those advisor as the same owners of the ships depredated. Yet the issue is bigger, and must be stopped at once: more than 30000 ships transit every year in that area and pirate attacks represent a daily direct threat to the people on board, but more affect the world maritime trade, which represent the 90% of world trade. To put an end to all that, EU launched a military operation, the EU NAVFOR Somalia (operation Atlanta) that will protect the vessels of the World Food Programme delivering food aid to displaced persons in Somali coast and be a deterrent, prevention and repression of acts of piracy and armed robbery in that region.
