"The World is Going Crazy" Department

Somali pirates are misunderstood ecologists. Or so claims Al-Jezeera. I absolutely have to laugh at this, but they are actually being taken seriously in some quarters.

The ransom demand is a means of "reacting to the toxic waste that has been continually dumped on the shores of our country for nearly 20 years", Januna Ali Jama, a spokesman for the pirates, based in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, said.

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