Posted on 05/12/2010 1:54:29 PM PDT by kronos77
An international maritime treaty means suspected pirates can be tried in the home countries of their victims but some governments have been put off this course of action for fear that convicted pirates might not return to Somalia after serving out their time in jail. Kuznetzov seemed to echo this when he said: "Why should we feed some pirates?"
Russian media reported that the 10 men were set adrift in a boat with no navigational equipment, and that contact was lost with the boat's radio beacon within an hour. However, Commander John Harbour, a spokesman for the EU naval force in Somalia, told the BBC that the loss of navigation equipment would not necessarily be critical and that the signal from the beacon could vanish if the battery ran out or it entered a satellite blind spot.
One Somali news website reported a conversation with an unidentified pirate who claimed the men were indeed dead but said they had all been shot before they were loaded into the skiff. There is no evidence for this account
Why is it that only the Sov, er, Russians have the common sense to do this?
And notice how the Somalis are NOT beating their chests and making threats against the Russians, like they did against us after we rescued the captain from the lifeboat?
The ACLU would have the vapors.
Nah -maybe they “baptized” them into bhuddism first, then “recycled” them. I do support green piracy....
They should feed the prisoners...to the sharks.
“Russian media reported that the 10 men were set adrift in a boat with no navigational equipment.”
Seems a fair fate for pirate to me.
well, you know what they say... you can't live forever.
I commend the Russian Marines for being able to ignore the sights and keep their mind on the training!:)
Oh, come on. Was that second question rhetorical? Does it really require an answer? Even the Russian Mob makes MS13 look like something off a daisy chain. They don’t even have to be high to enjoy it. They LIKE making people hurt.
Well done, Ivan. How about an encore.
I fail to se any down side to this.
Hm. Any chance we could hire these guys?
Sometime, you’ve got to love those Russians!!
Abdul, the good news is we’re letting you go.
The bad news is you’re unlikely to be able to swim 200 miles to shore.
Well, if they are competent pirates, they should be able to navigate by the stars, right?
Who says there’s no good news anymore?
Come on you Ruskie lovelies, send some more somali criminals to that demon allah, even with the hundreds of millions of muhammedans roasting their stomachs in hell, there’s always room for more.
I guess the media figures that if they report on this enough, someone will eventually give a crap?
It would be terrible to withhold rightful sustenance to God’s sharky creatures.
“Captain Bligh and can navigate and sail a small boat.”
Captain Bligh and his crew managed to travel 3600 nautical miles over 47 days in his small boat without charts or compass (though he did have a sextant and pocket watch). Apparently the Somali pirates lacked his seafaring skills.
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