[Conservative Vermont Vet]

According to Drudge and My Way News: "Still on board were 25 Indian and two Bangladeshi crew members, said diplomats who could not be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media. The British security guards escaped by jumping into the water, said a news release issued by their company, Anti-Piracy Maritime Security Solutions."

If accurate, that does not reflect well on the "British Security Guards" who one would expect (though after their little naval surrender, fiascos with Iran, one only knows) they would be armed? And if so, there is something here that does not compute!!!

[Cicero]

Yes, this seems very strange to me, too. Why would you hire three British “security guards” (pretty expensive, I would think) who were unarmed, and who jumped into the sea at the first sign of a pirate attack?

It certainly sounds like those cowardly Brit sailors who surrendered to Iranian gunboats.