Radars on Yemeni coasts to safeguard territorial waters from piracy
The Source: www.sabanews.net - 23/11/2008
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Yemen has installed long-range radars to monitor pirate boats in the
event of approached the Yemeni territorial waters, the GPC-run
almotamar.net reported on Saturday.
The website quoted sources
from Ministries of Interior and Defense as saying that extra hundreds
of soldiers have been deployed on several gunboats outfitted with the
modern fighting equipment to repress piracy acts.
A source in
the Defense Ministry revealed that the ministry is to establish two
marine military bases in governorates of Hadramout and Hodeidah to
reinforce the protection of the Yemeni territorial waters.
These
security procedures aim to combat terrorist and trafficking acts as
well as to guard against any acts may be launched by Somali pirates
against ships off the Yemeni coast, the source made clear.
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