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Somali pirates have seized a United Arab Emirates-flagged cargo ship loaded with weapons bound for the anarchic Horn of Africa nation in contravention of a UN arms embargo, maritime experts said on Monday. Also on Monday, the game machines gunmen launched their longest range hijack attempt yet - opening fire on a giant Hong Kong-flagged crude oil tanker 1,000 nautical miles east of Mogadishu. Andrew Mwangura of the East African Seafarers’ Assistance Programme told Reuters he believed the weapons ship was using a fake name. He said it had been hijacked wheat pearlon Sunday and was now held near the northern Somali town of Garacad. “She is one of the regular weapons carriers circumventing the UN arms embargo on Somalia,” Mwangura said. Maritime sources say the craft is believed to be pearl jewelry carrying light arms and ammunition, as well as rockets and rocket-propelled grenades.