Pirates released after assault operation near Gulf of Aden apparently perished

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[LouAvul]

The Somali pirates who were captured in an assault operation after hijacking a Russian tanker near the Gulf of Aden and then released by Russian military officials have not reached the coast and have apparently perished, a top-ranking source in Russia's Defense Ministry told journalists on Tuesday.

Russia's Moscow University tanker was hijacked last week near the Gulf of Aden. Ten pirates were captured and one was killed in the assault operation.

The captured pirates were initially to be sent to Moscow for prosecution, but Russian military officials then made the decision to release them, citing the absence of a legal base to carry out prosecution procedures against pirates.

The pirate's boat reportedly disappeared from radars an hour after they had been released by the Russian military.

MOSCOW, May 11 (RIA Novosti)

[piytar]

Russian equivalent of 50 cal or 30mm cannon fire?

[SJSAMPLE]

Rule .303

[Mr. K]

How much you want to bet NO OTHER RUSSIAN VESSEL GETS HIJACKED

[IYAS9YAS]

They released them - one at a time, over the edge, after they were ventilated to help regulate air pressure at the bottom of the ocean...

[EternalVigilance]

"Let the pirates go, Cap'n? Aye aye..."

[colorado tanker]

Gee, the boat looked fine when they took off.

[Gomez]

The same thing happened on LOST last week.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Bill Casey said that the Russians spoke Hezbollah's language. In the early 80’s when Western diplomats were routinely being kidnapped in Beirut, a Russian diplomat was briefly seized. Two of the kidnappers cousins were found dead with their penises sewed into their mouths and the Russian hostage was promptly freed. As Bill Casey said ...

[ottbmare]

How much you want to bet NO OTHER RUSSIAN VESSEL GETS HIJACKED

And that, sir, is the moral of the story. Putin knows how to get his point across. Would that we were so forthright. Alas, we have a limpwristed femboy for a president, not a reincarnation of Ivan the Terrible nor a cowboy, and no one is afraid of limpwristed femboys.

[JRandomFreeper]

1. I usually believe Pravda before the NYT

2. I like many Russian decisions more than American ones

I agree. Who would have thought this old Cold War vet would be cheering for the Ruskis?

/johnny

[Jane Long]

IF this, by some chance, happened via the US, the entire world would be outraged. Obamster would have to be in nonstop apology mode to no end. (But, the US would not do this under Obamster’s reign.)

[dfwgator]

On behalf of the sharks allow me to say, "спасибо"

[End Times Sentinel]

How much you want to bet NO OTHER RUSSIAN VESSEL GETS HIJACKED

This is a bunch so stupid that they tried to hijack a U.S. Navy ship.

They'll stumble their way into hijacking another one, but your main point is correct: If we'd make this type of thing SOP, it'd put this problem to an end.

[GeronL]

Apparently the pirates couldn’t swim too well. heh.

Some soldier must have put some holes in their boat.

[C210N]

This is simply a matter of a bit of oversight on part of the Russians. Anybody could have forgotten to completely provision the raft.

I'm sure they tried to be complete about it, you know, providing stuff for a voyage: pins, needles, broken glass, nails and screws... probably just forgot to include the raft repair kit, while they were packing up the boat for them. If they were rushing a bit, ie: russian', they might have forgotten to encase the pins/needles in their original boxes.

[Gurn]

Good for the Russians.

[Little Ray]

Or a little package on the bottom, with a timer...

[The Toll]

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to be a country that is willing to take up for itself at the very least.

[GourmetDan]

I think the odds of pirates seizing another Russian vessel just dropped significantly.

[em2vn]

Don’t put up a link from Russia. I’m now trying to delete Malware from the link to the site. Thanks a lot.