NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Interpol is compiling a database of fingerprints, photographs and other personal information on Somali pirate suspects to help fight piracy at sea, the agency said Wednesday.The information can be accessed by any of the agency's 187 member countries.
''Without systematically collecting photographs, fingerprints and DNA profiles of arrested pirates and comparing them internationally, it is simply not possible to establish their true identity or to make connections which would otherwise be missed,'' Interpol's Executive Director of Police Services, Jean-Michel Louboutin, said in a statement released Wednesday at the agency's headquarters in Lyon, France...more..http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/06/17/world/AP-Piracy.html?ref=global-home
Somalia needs help to combat piracy
http://www.mg.co.za/multimedia/2009-06-17-somalia-needs-help-to-combat-piracy
Inside Somalia's pirate town
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8103549.stm
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