[SkyPilot]

But the pirates were released on Friday and put in one of their own boats, without weapons or navigation equipment, 300 nautical miles off the coast of Somalia

Weapons and navigation equipment were not what they vitally lacked.

What killed them (in a slow, painful, suffering death) was lack of WATER.

At sea, in the desert, and in other places where you are totally exposed to the sun, you will become massively dehydrated in a matter of hours.

Has anyone here ever been thirsty, and I mean suffering from thirst to the point where it is all you can think about?

If anyone ever watched that episode from "I Shouldn't Be Alive" about the sinking of the yacht Trashman, they saw a reenactment of what it is like to be in a small boat at sea and watch everyone die of thirst (and shark attack). Not fun.

One of the survivors wrote this book: it reads like a horror novel.

The pirates deserved their fate. The Russians don't care about being "condemned" by CNN, MSNBC, Al Sharpton, or the UN.

The pirates will think twice about attacking any Russian flagged ship. Believe me.

[raybbr]

Weapons and navigation equipment were not what they vitally lacked. What killed them (in a slow, painful, suffering death) was lack of WATER.

Uh... I think we all got that.

[Cheburashka]

The pirates will think twice about attacking any Russian flagged ship. Believe me.

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The fun part is that the ship was Russian owned, but Liberian flagged. So checking the flag does the pirates no good.

[No Surrender No Retreat]

I applaud the Russians for their just action against terrorists.

[GOPJ]

The pirates deserved their fate. The Russians don't care about being "condemned" by CNN, MSNBC, Al Sharpton, or the UN. The pirates will think twice about attacking any Russian flagged ship. Believe me.

You're right SkyPiot - they won't be going after the Russians... they'll go after soft targets - like us.

[editor-surveyor]

“The pirates will think twice about attacking any Russian flagged ship. Believe me.”

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I believe you!

That still leaves them with at least a dozen other countries ships to pick on, the U.S. included.

Obummer sure doesn’t have the cojones to deal with them so effectively.
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