Pirates of the Mediterranean? | We've all heard about those nasty pirates off the coast of Somalia, who have been attacking cargo ships and the occasional cruise ship over the past few months. (If you're interested in a fantastic account of one such attack, check out this article by William Langewiesche from the April issue of Vanity Fair.) Is it possible the piracy trend now moving north to, say, European waters? That's what some are wondering now that a cargo ship seems to have mysteriously vanished off the coast of Sweden. It's possible it wasn't a pirate attack and was connected to a commercial dispute of some sort. Although if it was an attack by pirates, the view from the beaches of Saint-Tropez are about to get a little bit more interesting, no? [AP, related]
Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse, the Somali man accused of hijacking an American cargo ship and holding its captain hostage, arrived in New York last night, the footage of which you've probably seen 273 times on the news by now. He was all smiles when he landed on American shores, but his mood was a bit different when he appeared in court this afternoon: After telling a judge via an interpreter that he had no money to pay for a lawyer, he started to cry when his lawyers brought up his family back home in Somalia. Cry not, evil pirate! You've arrived in just the right place at just the right time. 
That was quick. It's been just 24 hours since Navy commandos took out the pirates holding Captain Richard Phillips hostage, and there's already a reality TV show in the works. Spike announced today that it 
