KUALA LUMPUR: Three Malaysian Navy ships are on their way to the
Middle East to provide security cover for Malaysian ships sailing
the pirate-infested Gulf of Aden.
A Malaysian Navy frigate, KD Lekiu, and a support ship
have reached the Maldives and are heading to the gulf while a third
ship – KD Pahang – will leave Malaysia soon for the Gulf
of Aden.
Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said that an
unspecified number of soldiers from the navy, army and the air
force aboard the three ships would be tasked to protect the five
vessels of the Malaysia International Shipping Corporation Bhd
(MISC) now sailing in the pirate-infested area.
The ships were also carrying several helicopters with them, he
told reporters after receiving food parcels and cash donations from
various organisations for members of the Armed Forces at the
Defence Ministry here at a ceremony attended by Datin Seri Jeanne
Abdullah, who is president of Members of the Association of
Ministers and Deputy Ministers Wives (Bakti).
Najib was commenting on the hijacking of two MISC ships – the
Bunga Melati Dua and Bunga Melati Lima – and
kidnapping of their crewmen, including 65 Malaysians by Somali
pirates off the Gulf of Aden last week.
The kidnapped crew were safe according to latest indications and
the authorities were in contact with those who had seized the MISC
ships, he said, but declined to say more for fear of compromising
the negotiations.
Najib said there was no necessity for Malaysia to inform the
United Nations (UN) of its intentions to send its fleet there but
he would touch on the situation in a speech he would present at the
UN in New York on Sept 29.
Go Malaysia..........kill the Somali terrorist
bastards........just like you did the last time during the "Black
Hawk Down" incident..... ......
As for Singapore Navy.......I say you are a joke........you are
the best in SE Asia, but you lack the political will to
fight.....not like the Royal Malaysian Navy who dares to go Africa
even.....
