money) while we ramp up the fishing and the other areas of business we interested in, that means oil, it means fishing, it means other businesses i will discuss with u in person. What we are doing now is setting the ground work for co-opperation with all our friends in many profitable areas where we can help each other.

Bottom line: you should meet with them, listen to what they have to say (the real reason they want to see u is probably differ- ent as nobody is fishing anymore in somali waters other than locals, talking about 'illegal fishing vessels' is their code, it just means commercial ships passing their waters..)

In any case after u talk with them tell them u need to go back to Asia to talk with the company owners about it and we will need another follow up meeting when u return.

On the day of the meeting, the pirate and his crew arrived in a gold-colored Toyota Land Cruiser. The transaction was a simple one, and Klaussen easily secured approval for his boats to fish in the pirate's territory. But the pirate had a more pressing issue: Would Klaussen be interested in buying the Land Cruiser? It was too con- spicuous for him, he'd discovered. "The drones are spotting me, they can pick me out of anything with the golden car," he told Klaussen. "Why don't you just buy it? You have a registered com- pany, you are not doing what I do." Klaussen acquired it on the spot.

The pirates may have been on board, but the rest of the Somalia operation was creeping along. Le Roux was wiring millions into the country from accounts at Wilex and La Plata Trading, and buying equipment overseas to be shipped through Dubai and Dji- bouti. Le Roux's lieutenant, Nestor Del Rosario, purchased ten Yamaha outboard motors through a shell company in July 2009, shipping them via Hong Kong and Djibouti and then on to Soma- lia, to accompany ten fishing boats they had bought locally. The equipment for building the factory arrived in Galkayo but hadn't been moved out to the coast. "There were tents for four to five