Somali Pirates Seize Ship-Load of Tanks  Somalia was already bad
news, with a raging Islamic insurgency, brutal
counterinsurgents, and a booming market for kidnapping and
thievery. But now, things there may be about to get a whole lot
worse. Somali pirates have seized a Ukrainian ship, carrying
rocket-propelled grenades, anti-aircraft guns and atl east 30
T-72 . "They really hit the jackpot this time," an unnamed
regional arms expert tells the Times of London.  No one knows,
definitively, where the shipment of T-72 tanks was supposed to
go. Russia’s ITAR-TASS news agency says it was bound for Kenya,
which received 77 of the Ukrainian tanks last year. Andrew
Mwangura, of the Mombasa, Kenya-based East African Seafarers’
Assistance Programme, seems less sure. He tells Reuters, "In the
past, military equipment has come through Mombasa on its way to
south Sudan, but we have not seen any south Sudanese officials
at the port waiting. And anyway, there is an arms embargo for
Sudan." T-72 tanks have also been shipped