Posted on 03/24/2010 9:11:03 AM PDT by traumer
A suspected pirate has been shot dead as private guards repelled an attack on a cargo ship off Somalia, in what may have been the first such incident.
Guards aboard the Panamanian-flagged MV Almezaan returned fire after the ship was attacked - the third time in a year that pirates had targeted the ship.
The EU naval force (Navfor) said a team from an EU warship found the dead man after responding to a distress call.
Six other suspected pirates were detained by a Spanish Navfor ship.
All the evidence suggests that there was a fire-fight Cmdr John Harbour Navfor spokesman
The ESPS Navarra found one pirate mother ship and two skiffs. The mother ship was destroyed after the suspects were taken into custody, Navfor said.
Navfor spokesman Cmdr John Harbour told the BBC News website that he believed there was strong evidence to prosecute the six suspects detained.
"All the evidence suggests that there was a fire-fight," he said.
Bullet-holes were found in the skiffs in which they were found, he added.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
SOMEBODY call the ACLU..... !!
Gee, do you just think? Doesn’t the Pirate Union protect them? Promise this will not happen? Provide death benefits to the family.
UNintended consequences? I should think not.
If distress call was by the attacked ship, I understand the response.
If it was by the pirates, who gives a smelly Obama?
This idiotic line of thinking probably responsible for 90% of the problems we face as a society today.
They might or might not be pirates?
Six other suspected pirates were detained ...
The ESPS Navarra found one pirate mother ship and two skiffs.
Funny that the people are only suspected of being pirates even though they were on what is factually described as a pirate mother ship.
If you're a person on a pirate ship who is not a captive, then aren't you a pirate?
I saw a story yesterday that said this incident could cause the pirates to become violent.
Really?
If the Pirate Union isn't there for them, dems in the U.S. will step in with "protection"...
Dead men tell no tales ...
SnakeDoc
Yes, this incident could cause the pirates to become violent. They were already attacking the ship with machine guns and RPGs. Who knows what they will do when they become violent?
We could at least offer them healthcare...
Good on them!!! You can always get more with a kind word — and a gun — than you can with just a kind word.
OL - or maybe citizenship...
What about swivel guns and steam hoses?
heated canon shot?
Grape and chain?
Making the pirates look at the Nancy Pelosi swimsuit canendar?
“They might or might not be pirates?”
They ain’t no pirates that’s for sure. They’re MUSLIMS!
yo ho ho?
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