Geeze, there's been a lot more news and no one, including me, has updated this thread.

The latest news is that now the Somali pirates are praying on one another. Is there no honor among pirates? Evidently not. Just as one group of pirates was preparing to get their hard earned $5.5 million ransom for a captured supertanker a rival gang of pirates showed up and tried to rip them off. Well, the original group called in the Navy and the Dutch evidently sent over a helicopter gun ship to chase off the intruders. Here's more details: click here for report!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble