Somalia and other poor countries in the area of the Gulf of Aden have no navies to speak--arguably, they have no governments to speak of, either. Which is creating a problem for some shippers in the area, as the same sort of piracy that infests parts of Malaysia, Indonesia, the South China Sea, and other cesspools around the world has opened up for business. The US Navy has admitted that it cannot cover all such areas, and in this case the assets available are not up to the task. So shippers and even the local governments are looking to private companies to help safeguard merchant traffic. Larger outfits like Blackwater are actually commissioning anti-piracy vessels, while start-ups like Anti-Piracy Maritime Security Solutions are placing small teams of former special forces troops aboard the ships. It's working. Maybe this company should have invested in some protection. Oh, but wait! That was a Saudi-owned tanker, and the Saudis labor under the delusion that the US is fully...