Ex-navy officers take on pirates

By Deborah Snow
September 12 2012 - 3:00am
Increasing in prevalence and scope for targets ... a boarding party from HMAS Stuart comes alongside a dhow which had been seized by Somali pirates earlier this year.
Increasing in prevalence and scope for targets ... a boarding party from HMAS Stuart comes alongside a dhow which had been seized by Somali pirates earlier this year.

FORMER Australian military personnel are among thousands of private security guards who have been hired to protect commercial shipping in the Indian Ocean against attacks by Somali pirates.

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