Lyon, 19 January 2010 (Somalilandpress) – Interpol’s No. 2 official says big-money payoffs from pirate attacks off the Horn of Africa don’t yet appear to have reached terror groups like al-Qaida.

Jean-Michel Louboutin also says Africa – a hub of the drugs trade, terrorism and pirate attacks – has become a crucial area of focus for the international police agency.

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Louboutin insists he has “no certainty” that al-Qaida or an affiliate insurgent group in Somalia known as al-Shabab receive cash from piracy, “but nothing indicates that it won’t get there.”

Louboutin spoke to The Associated Press on Tuesday in an interview as Interpol opened a two-day, closed-door conference on piracy financing at its headquarters in Lyon.


Source: The Washington Post

1 COMMENT

  1. Pirate is a word that has made us to confuse much but i would like to tell you a secret and special word that would terminate it completely if you need this would it’s Somaliland
    Somaliland has already captured an active parteners of this pirates while the international community petroling the indian ocean and the golf of aden had failed to to do even a one step forward to fight pirates

    it would be great that somaliland coastal guards had much and modern ships to fight againts pirates as Nato’s have