NATO Task Force Neutralizes Two Pirate Mother Ships

Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean–(ENEWSPF)–8 January 2012.  Over the last 3 days in two separate operations Units of NATO’S Counter Piracy Task Force 508 successfully identified and neutralised two ocean going dhows that had been pirated and were subsequently being used as mother ships from which Somali pirates were intending to launch attacks on merchant shipping in the sea lanes off Somalia and the southern Arabian coasts.