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As The Economist went to press, the Sirius Star had dropped anchor off the Somali pirate port of Haradheere.
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For America, the case of the Sirius Star underlines longstanding concerns that piracy off Somalia, still strictly mercenary, might soon attract jihadist operators.
ECONOMIST: The significance of the latest attacks by Somali pirates
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The pirates who seized the Sirius Star are a sophisticated group with contacts in Dubai and neighbouring countries, says the BBC Somali Service's Yusuf Garaad.
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The Sirius Star was attacked a long way south of Somalia.
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The Sirius Star is believed now to be anchored somewhere off the coast of Somalia, near the pirate port of Eyl in the northern Puntland region of the country.
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Ship hijacking off the Horn of Africa has been on the upswing for the past two years and has finally come to the forefront of international attention with the taking of the Sirius Star.
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The Chinese believed that the rising of Arcturus, the fourth-brightest star in the sky, caused spring to burst forth, while the Egyptians thought that the appearance of Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, brought about the annual flooding of the Nile.
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And when they aimed at Sirius they could see the dim white-dwarf which orbits what is the brightest star in the night sky.
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