E.U. Extends Anti-Piracy Operation Off the Somali Coast

The E.U. Anti-Piracy mission was extended in June for 12 months until late 2010 in an area of operations that has doubled in size to 2 million square miles. At the core of the new co-ordination is a computer-based system known as Mercury, billed as a “highly secure but unclassified” way to share real-time...