I was sitting in McDonald's at lunch today, and like most places, they had Fox News running on the TVs. I was just watching the little scrolling news bar, and say "Interpol has created a new anti-piracy division..." and I was thinking "Great, more governments are spending money on fighting piracy."
Then the rest scrolled by, and it talked about them sending the first support and training to a few countries in Africa because they had large numbers of Somalian pirates in custody. Who knew piracy could mean real pirates!?
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Can't sleep, clown will eat me.
I wouldn't advise taking a boat trip south of the Suez canal close to Somalia.
Tailmon wrote:
I wouldn't advise taking a boat trip south of the Suez canal close to Somalia.
Bring nunchucks.
Did I miss a memo? The Maersk Alabama attack was huge news but this went completely under my radar:
LA Times wrote:
WASHINGTON — A California couple and two other Americans taken hostage by Somali pirates were mortally wounded Tuesday morning by their captors, shortly before a U.S. special operations team boarded the hijacked vessel, killed two of the pirates and captured the rest, U.S. military officials said.
Some of the victims were still alive when they were found by the U.S. team and were given first aid, but all four died, said Adm. Mark Fox, the commander of U.S. naval forces in the region.
The owners of the yacht Quest, Jean and Scott Adam of Marina del Rey and another couple, Phyllis Macay and Robert Riggle of Seattle, were on an around-the-world sailing trip when they were taken hostage by pirates Friday off of Oman.
[...]
As the U.S. special forces team cleared the vessel, it discovered two pirates who already were dead. Another two were killed by U.S. personnel, one by gunfire and one by a knife, Fox said.
"A pirate was killed by a special operations force members with a knife while clearing the interior of the vessel," Fox said.
In all, 15 pirates are in U.S. custody and will be held for possible prosecution, Fox said.
Some of the victims were still alive when they were found by the U.S. team and were given first aid, but all four died, said Adm. Mark Fox, the commander of U.S. naval forces in the region.
The owners of the yacht Quest, Jean and Scott Adam of Marina del Rey and another couple, Phyllis Macay and Robert Riggle of Seattle, were on an around-the-world sailing trip when they were taken hostage by pirates Friday off of Oman.
[...]
As the U.S. special forces team cleared the vessel, it discovered two pirates who already were dead. Another two were killed by U.S. personnel, one by gunfire and one by a knife, Fox said.
"A pirate was killed by a special operations force members with a knife while clearing the interior of the vessel," Fox said.
In all, 15 pirates are in U.S. custody and will be held for possible prosecution, Fox said.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
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Jophiel wrote:
LA Times wrote:
WASHINGTON — A California couple and two other Americans taken hostage by Somali pirates were mortally wounded Tuesday morning by their captors, shortly before a U.S. special operations team boarded the hijacked vessel, killed two of the pirates and captured the rest, U.S. military officials said.
In all, 15 pirates are in U.S. custody and will be held for possible prosecution, Fox said.
In all, 15 pirates are in U.S. custody and will be held for possible prosecution, Fox said.
Yea, just saw today that they were killed.
Why'd the team stop at 2. Shoulda' killed 'em all. **** prosecution, what the U.S. needs is 15 good sturdy trees and 15 strong ropes at this moment.
Edited, Feb 22nd 2011 1:37pm by ShadorVIII
You never heard about that Joph? The hijacking happened a few days ago. Stupid, to take your yacht off alone there.
publiusvarus wrote:
we all know liberals are well adjusted american citizens who only want what's best for society. While conservatives are evil money grubbing scum who only want to sh*t on the little man and rob the world of its resources.
Debalic wrote:
You never heard about that Joph? The hijacking happened a few days ago. Stupid, to take your yacht off alone there.
Yeah, I've no idea how I missed it. The circumstances do sound pretty stupid (leaving your group that you joined for protection and taking off on your own).
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Jophiel wrote:
Did I miss a memo? The Maersk Alabama attack was huge news but this went completely under my radar:
Post less?
MoebiusLord wrote:
Post less?
NO U
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Curses! Foiled again.
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