The pirate said he was retiring after years of terrorising the Indian Ocean and generating millions of dollars [AFP]
Somali 'Big Mouth' Quits Pirate Industry -- Al Jazeera
Mohamed "Afweyne" Abdi Hassan renounces illicit profession, as international naval crackdown diminishes piracy profits.
A Somali pirate kingpin nicknamed "Big Mouth" has renounced a life of hijacking ships.
Before his announcement on Friday, Mohamed "Afweyne" Abdi Hassan's profession earned him fame and fortune - prior to an international naval crackdown that has curbed attacks on maritime commercial and pleasure craft.
A UN Monitoring Group report on Somalia in 2010 said that commanded bandits in the Arabian Sea and off the Indian Ocean coast of East Africa for almost a decade, raking in millions of dollars in ransom payments.
"I have given up piracy and succeeded in encouraging more youth to give up piracy," Afweyne told the Reuters news agency.
"This came as a result of my efforts for a long period. The boys also took the decision like me. It was not due to fear from warships, it was just a decision," he said by mobile phone from his base in Adado in central Somalia.
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My Comment: I guess he wants to quit while he is ahead .... but he is a wanted man, and I suspect that one day he will be caught.
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