Posted on 04/18/2009 4:55:59 AM PDT by Jonny foreigner
Dutch commandos have freed 20 people who had been captured by Somali pirates after the raiders attacked a Greek-managed tanker, Nato says.
The captives, Yemeni fishermen, were freed as the Dutch forces captured seven pirates in the Gulf of Aden.
They were aboard a pirate "mother ship" from which smaller craft attack commercial vessels.
The captured pirates are alleged to have attacked the tanker using assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades.
A Dutch warship from the Nato force responded to a distress call from the tanker and saw the pirates fleeing toward a Yemeni fishing trawler, Nato spokesman Alexandre Santos Fernandes said.
Nato troops boarded the vessel and freed the 20 Yemenis who, he says, had been held hostage since Sunday.
The pirates were set free, the Associated Press news agency reports, because under Dutch law they could not be held at sea under the circumstances in which they were captured.
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the pirates where set free????????
“The pirates were set free, the Associated Press news agency reports, because under Dutch law they could not be held at sea under the circumstances in which they were captured”.
How damned stupid can things get! The inmates are really running the asylum!
“the pirates where set free????????”
Probably in exchange for a few tons of Marijuana.
The Dutch as well as most of Europe have gone totally
bonkers.
Don’t get so upset about this. This is not a big issue. It’s maddening, yes. It’s a symptom of global insanity, yes.
But from now on, when you read any story about pirates, think of the pirate in the White House, the one who’s holding the US Constitution hostage.
That’s something we should all focus on, not on the trivial matter of piracy off the coast of Somalia.
Yes, trivial. Compared to what peg-leg-Obama is doing to our country.
Trivial.
We manufacture the rope.
We tie it in a noose.
We throw the other side over a tree limb and secure.
We put our head through the noose.
What more can we do to destroy ourselves and to grant power to the evil, low-life scumbags of the earth?
I guess the Pirates got their AKs and RPGs from the US.
Vince
May as well give them a bag lunch and some fresh ammunition!This is a classic example of LIBERAL STUPIDITY!
Probably in exchange for a few tons of Marijuana.
The Dutch as well as most of Europe have gone totally
bonkers.
Unbelievable. Just kill the bastards and be done with it.
Kind of like our southern border.
Please. They are NOT pirates. They are merely Somali Sea Scouts, trying to add more merit badges to their sashes.
Kind of like our southern border.
Someone said “The law is an a$$”.
Someone was right.
We used to hang pirates.
where was King Hussein when this rescue was going on?? mysteriously absent... coincidence? I think not
Well the Dutch and the French are doing their part, where in the hell are the Americans(I know where they are, setting on their hands by order of Bozo)?
After belatedly reading the post I withdraw my comment about the Dutch doing their part. This is total idiocy.
The whole world is completely up-side-down. The west is committing suicide at every opportunity.
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