Pirate researched cruising sailors blog to establish ransom

2:43 AM Sat 16 Apr 2011 GMT

'Quest owners Jean and Scott Adams, killed by pirates who researched their blog to establish a ransom demand' .

The fact that a pirate in a leadership role used the Internet to research the four Americans on board the yacht Quest, who were later killed by the boarding team of 14 pirates, sends an alarming message to cruising sailors who divulge a lot of information about themselves in cruising blogs. The FBI says that the fourteen pirates were aided by the fifteenth pirate to research how much might be asked in ransom for the four. Tragically, the four were killed by some of the pirates on board in February this year. Mohammad Saaili Shibin, also known as 'Khalif Ahmed ...

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