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Pirates target tropical tourist
hot spot
March 2010
By F. Brinley Bruton
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VICTORIA, Seychelles - With
mouths shut and eyes downcast, a group of Somali men and
boys sat around a table in the police station in Victoria,
the Seychelles’ capital city on the island of Mahé.
A police officer un-cuffed the 11 prisoners, some of whom
were barefoot, and left the room as their court-appointed
lawyer explained that they faced seven years to life in
prison on charges of piracy and terrorism.
"Make no mistake, you are facing some very, very, very serious charges," defense
lawyer Anthony Juliette said through an interpreter flown in from Kenya.
It isn’t every day I find myself in a room full of alleged
pirates. But that is where I was recently in the Seychelles,
an archipelago made of 115 tropical islands in the Indian Ocean,
about 900 miles off the east coast of Africa.
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F. Brinley Bruton has been a journalist for over ten years,
and worked in Kabul, Mexico City, Philadelphia, and New York
City. Now based in London, she is an editor, producer and
writer at msnbc.com, a leader in breaking news and original
journalism online.
Before joining MSNBC.com, Brinley wrote about security, business
and finance, international development and women's issues.
She has worked at Reuters in London and New York, and her
pieces have appeared in the New Statesman, The Guardian, Los
Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Long Island Newsday,
The Star-Ledger, and Arabies Trends, among others. She also
wrote and blogged for AlertNet, Reuters' humanitarian news
website.
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