Bring back the battleship. Just one broadside, and then I'm okay with giving the survivors a lawyer and reading them their rights.
Posted on 11/12/2008 12:59:23 PM PST by Mercia
Pirates caught redhanded by one of Her Majesty’s warships after trying to hijack a cargo ship off Somalia made the grave mistake of opening fire on two Royal Navy assault craft packed with commandos armed with machineguns and SA80 rifles.
In the ensuing gunfight, two Somali pirates in a Yemeni-registered fishing dhow were killed, and a third pirate, believed to be a Yemeni, suffered injuries and subsequently died. It was the first time the Royal Navy had been engaged in a fatal shoot-out on the high seas in living memory.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
“Where do they get these journalists?”
From journalism school. That should explain everything.
Ah you make the mistake of judging our (UK) armed forces by our politicians and high command.
On the ground they are the real thing.
That’s a pirate boat?
Bwahahahahahahahaha....
Once they opened the sealed containers everyone who came in contact with its contents died shortly after.
Were there any follow-ups to this? After reading how intelligence agencies enjoy planting such fear-friendly stories in the press, I figured I'd wait for confirmation but never saw any.
Good show, boys!!
Bring back the battleship. Just one broadside, and then I'm okay with giving the survivors a lawyer and reading them their rights.
To quote from the globalsecurity.org website (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/malvinas.htm)
Falklands/Malvinas War
The Falklands War was by far the largest and most extended series of naval battles since the Pacific campaign in World War II.
“I’m afraid as Her Majesty’s envoy, we will not accept your suprising surrender.
Instead, we’ll shall expedite your oft-stated wish to collect
your 72 virgins, or 72 raisins, or whatever in Paradise.”
(no, I don’t advocate shooting surrendering thugs...but in such a case
I’d be tempted to make an exception)
You're referring to the MV Iran Deyant. There was speculation about what you report. Was it actually confirmed?!? Are we sure Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed was telling us the truth?
I took it to mean a small arms battle.
I’m very glad to hear that.
Glad they didn’t pull a Cornwall, that’s for sure!
Hope the remaining pirates were hanged from the yardarm in accordance with the law of the sea.
But what the artcile said was a "shoot out", and if the battles leading up to the sinking of the Bismark (ie. the loss of the Hood) was not a shoot out, there never was one.
Sailors on the HMS Sheffield may beg to differ. Same with the sailors on the Admiral Belgrano (Actually this vessel was the USS Phoenix (CL-46)- the first ship to exit Pearl on December 7, 1941).
The Sheffield and the Belgrano were not sunk using small arms... that is what I think the author is referring to.
Considering that the Frigate was standing by, and the two assault boats had heavy machine guns mounted plus a number of commandos, the skinnies were obviously at a loss.
So poorly written it's hard to tell.
Here's one place where the Chinese would be useful. The last pirates they caught were tried, convicted and executed within three days.
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