Posted on 04/08/2009 8:26:16 AM PDT by Robe
Breaking. Per CBS radio news.. the crew has regained control of the ship throwing three pirates overboard and capturing one.. Will post more.. Breaking
(Excerpt) Read more at CBSNEWS.COM ...
I heard it but knew it earlier.
Vegetable oil and foodstuffs.
Yes, headed to Mombasa and Kenya.
Oh great (eye roll). The media and Obama will use this as an excuse to say that Americans don’t need guns and our military doesn’t need guns, bullets or planes...lol.
There are those who talk about taking action, and there are men who take action.
Good job to all of the crew!
America - Refuse to Be A Victim! Yes!
Now on to throwing the domestic pirates out.
according to “official” reports, no..but I’d be my bottom $$ they were, although “unofficially”..
Imagine a terrorist attack like that.
BUT - that's a story for another thread! - Just reporting what I just heard.
990-tons of vegetable oil and more than 4,000 metric tons of corn-soya blend.
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Headline?
Fisherman block shipment of trans fat
:)
Here’s what the “FISHERMEN” have been up to:
Entire Article:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hSeKFjZIVozCnvC0NSHQ42elvbfQ
Among attacks over the past few days, Somali pirates hijacked a British-owned cargo ship, a German container carrier, a Taiwanese fishing boat, a Yemeni tugboat and a small French yacht with a three-year-old boy on board.
“Despite increased naval presence in the region, ships and aircraft are unlikely to be close enough to provide support to vessels under attack. The scope and magnitude of problem can not be understated,” the statement said.
It said the area involved covers an area roughly four times the size of Texas — or the size of the Mediterranean and Red Seas combined.
But despite successful recent attacks, it said “merchant mariners have proven successes as first line defenders against pirates” with some having used “evasive manoeuvring and other defensive measures to protect their ships and their cargoes.”
Some crew members had turned fire hoses on their attackers, fired flares at them or rigged barbed wire along the sides of the ship to prevent the pirates from boarding.
More than 130 attacks, including nearly 50 which were successful, were reported in 2008. Most were in the Gulf of Aden, where 16,000 ships enter and exit the Red Sea each year on one of the world’s busiest maritime trade routes.
At least 18 ships and more than 250 hostages are now in pirate hands.
Despite the recent upsurge in hijackings, the number of attacks and their success rate has declined slightly since the start of the year, which is due to unfavourable sea conditions and an increased foreign naval presence in the Gulf.
"The 17,000-ton Maersk Alabama was
carrying emergency relief to Mombasa, Kenya,
at the time it was hijacked, said Peter Beck-Bang, spokesman for the Copenhagen-based container shipping group A.P. Moller-Maersk. A Kenya-based diplomat identified the crew as American, but Navy Spokesman Lt. Nathan Christensen declined to release details until family members of the crew are notified."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,513183,00.html
those sailors may be in a bit of hot water, you know, freeing themselves and not waiting for a government bailout..after fierce negotiations and lots of “Letters of Grave Concern”..and stuff..
About the only worker who can have a weapon is the owner of his own business.Lawyers,insurers,and "safety" experts all collude to pass laws severely penalizing firearms,knives,and they are even now going after the large metal flashlights as something which must be eliminated.
Few people realize just how successful the socialists have been in denying and villifying self-defense.
If they were SIU, they were taught by the best. ;)
Picture got screened out by my server but I’ve seen them all before and remember them, along with attendant headaches, all too well. :0)
That story is from October 30 and different boat.
Was driving the car so I did not get the whole statement from the company spokesperson, but they are not supposed to resist pirates. Spokesperson seemed to insinuate that if they “took back the ship” they would be in trouble.
Yes, I agree, but did they violate anyone’s rights in taking back the ship? Was there any torture involved?
This may be a case that needs to be referred to the World Court at The Hague.
“My sea report got shot up by pirates” will hopefully be a good excuse for not doing all the work.
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