Somali pirates will attack when the southwest monsoon subsides in September Please be advised that the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) has issued an advisory assessing that Somali pirates will resume a high level of operations when the southwest monsoon subsides in September 2011 and corresponding seas become conducive for small boat operations.Pirates will continue to evolve their tactics, techniques, and procedures in an attempt to circumvent defensive measures of commercial shipping and in response to patrolling naval forces. Pirates will attack targets of opportunity, regardless of their flag, vessel profile, crew composition, or cargo. Pirates will routinely operate in major shipping lanes, to include those off the Indian coast, in the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, leading into/out of Kenya and Tanzania, and in the Arabian Sea.Anchorage areas in the region are not exempt from the threat posed by pirates. Pirates will conduct attacks with skiffs and will operate from shore at great distances with the use of a variety of motherships - to include whalers, dhows, commercial fishing vessels, captured merchant ships, and potentially, the use of cattle transport vessels.The Maritime Administrator would take this opportunity to again urge all vessels operating in the High Risk Area ...
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