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Pirates 'have all died,' Russia says, after decrying 'imperfections' in international law
Cleveland.com ^ | 5/11/10 | MANSUR MIROVALEV

Posted on 05/11/2010 4:10:34 PM PDT by pissant

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To: MsLady

We did shoot a few. that works too. But there is something more romantic about the old school methods.


41 posted on 05/11/2010 4:29:30 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant

No virgins for you!


42 posted on 05/11/2010 4:29:37 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck.)
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To: cripplecreek

Nope. 100% success rate to date.


43 posted on 05/11/2010 4:29:52 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: kabar
I doubt that future pirates will knowingly attack Russian ships.

Well these pirates won't anyway.
44 posted on 05/11/2010 4:30:35 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: 4rcane
in the old days pirates were fed to the sharks It seems like the new days they are also![sarc]
45 posted on 05/11/2010 4:31:53 PM PDT by ColdOne
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To: kabar

Perhaps the Russians gave them phones to call friends, family and fellow pirates, and instructed them to say, “hey fellow pirates, this Putin guy says we no attack Russian ships or we all get radiation poisoning. This Putin says instead we attack ships of that metrosexual Kenyan POS Obama. Although I do not know what POS stand for, we attack his ships. They say his ships come with red, white, blue flag. But stay away from ship with hammer and sickle, and we no get dead. Allah Akbar.”

But of course, the Obama administration will wonder why no more Russian ships get attacked.


46 posted on 05/11/2010 4:31:58 PM PDT by Sir Clancelot
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To: gwilhelm56

Well, there’s this racial thing about black folks can’t swim.


47 posted on 05/11/2010 4:33:00 PM PDT by jrg
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To: pissant

48 posted on 05/11/2010 4:33:01 PM PDT by Dumpster Baby (Truth is called hate by those who hate the truth.)
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To: Qout

In the absence of international law, I would be perfectly comfortable relieving the pirates of all stolen goods and then leaving them in the exact location found. If they boarded from a rowboat and are located 300 miles from land, so be it. If their boarding craft was abandoned once they seized a vessel, so be it. In the absence of man-made law, “natural law” will have to suffice: the legal analog of “natural consequences” used to teach young children. In that regard, “chumming” the water might seem a bit “unnatural”.


49 posted on 05/11/2010 4:34:28 PM PDT by DrC
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To: pissant

“I wonder if they got a last cigarette before pushed off the plank in chummed up shark waters?”

Silly per the Surgeon General smoking is bad for your health.


50 posted on 05/11/2010 4:34:31 PM PDT by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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To: pissant
The official told Russian news agencies the pirates' boat disappeared from Russian radar about an hour after their release.

Somalia does not have a navy. Seems the solution to the pirate problem is pretty obvious. Get rid of the pirates. No problem. LOL. Sometimes you have to love the Russians.
51 posted on 05/11/2010 4:34:54 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)
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To: FormerACLUmember
I am guessing IslamoVermin pirate attacks on Russkie ships will be zero from now on.

Why don't WE get this? We'd have them eating great food and then motivating all of their relatives to become pirates too. In one generation Somali pirates would be screaming for their American rights under the Constitution.

52 posted on 05/11/2010 4:36:00 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: PA Engineer

Guilty drove them to suicide. Those damn Russia must have made them feel bad about themselves.


53 posted on 05/11/2010 4:37:56 PM PDT by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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To: count-your-change

Aint that just like a thieving pirate to steal more chain than he can swim with.
barbra ann


54 posted on 05/11/2010 4:41:03 PM PDT by barb-tex (REMEMBER NOVEMBER!!! Slim as it may be, it is our last hope.)
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To: Sir Clancelot

The Russian Federation flag is three horizontal stripes, white, blue, then red.

Nary a hammer and sickle on it.

Confess, you’re just trying to screw with the poor pirates’ heads.


55 posted on 05/11/2010 4:41:29 PM PDT by Cheburashka (Stephen Decatur: you want barrels of gunpowder as tribute, you must expect cannonballs with it.)
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To: Citizen Tom Paine

That is the way international law used to work. You can summarily execute pirates on the high seas. They have no rights.


56 posted on 05/11/2010 4:44:13 PM PDT by kabar
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To: GenXteacher
‘captured Somali pirates “have all died.” - Oopskie, comrades...

Or... As we say in southern Russia: Tough shitskiz you all.

57 posted on 05/11/2010 4:44:44 PM PDT by dearolddad
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To: jazusamo; pissant; P-Marlowe
Revising my comment based on the following. They were put in a bullet-riddled, unseaworthy boat 300 miles from the coast.

The good swimmer part still holds.

The unidentified high-ranking Defense Ministry official did not elaborate on how the pirates died, deepening a mystery that has prompted speculation the pirates were executed by commandos who had freed a Russian oil tanker seized in waters 500 miles (800 kilometers) east of Somalia's coast.

The official told Russian news agencies the pirates' boat disappeared from Russian radar about an hour after their release.

"They could not reach the coast and, apparently, have all died," the official said."

The Defense Ministry could not be reached despite repeated phone calls Tuesday to the press office and the cell phones of spokesmen.

Russian officials have said one of the 11 pirates was killed during a gunbattle when the Russian special forces stormed the tanker on Thursday. The others, some said to have been wounded, were brought aboard a Russian destroyer.

Officials initially said they would be taken to Russia for trial, but the Defense Ministry said Friday they'd been released because of "imperfections" in international law. The statement was met with skepticism, especially in light of a comment made by the Russian president.

'Do what our forefathers did'

We'll have to do what our forefathers did when they met the pirates" until the international community comes up with a legal way of prosecuting them, Dmitry Medvedev said on the day the ship was stormed.


58 posted on 05/11/2010 4:45:06 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and proud of it. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: Kartographer
Silly per the Surgeon General smoking is bad for your health.

Pirating a Russian ship seems to have had an extremely deleterious effect on the health of that group of pirates, too.

I agree that the incidence of piracy involving Russian ships will probably drop like a rock.

59 posted on 05/11/2010 4:45:27 PM PDT by susannah59
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To: xzins

As long as they are feeding the crabs and sea urchins, I’m good with it.


60 posted on 05/11/2010 4:46:13 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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