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Post by ferryfast admin on Feb 22, 2006 0:13:25 GMT -5
Nine Indonesians, mainly from the tsunami-hit province of Aceh, have been jailed for seven years for a pirate attack on a Malaysian-owned tanker.
A Malaysian court sentenced the group for carrying out the armed, pre-dawn attack on the Nepline Delima off the northern resort island of Langkawi in the Malacca Strait last June.
The tanker was carrying more than $US3 million worth of diesel from Malaysia's Port Klang to Burma when it was boarded.
The attack was foiled when a quick-thinking crewman from the tanker leapt into the pirates' boat and sped off to alert police.
The Malacca Strait, separating the Indonesian island of Sumatra and the Malay peninsula, is one of the world's most important waterways, with 50,000 ships carrying about one-third of world trade each year.
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