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Pirates released after assault operation near Gulf of Aden apparently perished
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Posted on 05/11/2010 10:31:17 AM PDT by LouAvul

The Somali pirates who were captured in an assault operation after hijacking a Russian tanker near the Gulf of Aden and then released by Russian military officials have not reached the coast and have apparently perished, a top-ranking source in Russia's Defense Ministry told journalists on Tuesday.

Russia's Moscow University tanker was hijacked last week near the Gulf of Aden. Ten pirates were captured and one was killed in the assault operation.

The captured pirates were initially to be sent to Moscow for prosecution, but Russian military officials then made the decision to release them, citing the absence of a legal base to carry out prosecution procedures against pirates.

The pirate's boat reportedly disappeared from radars an hour after they had been released by the Russian military.

MOSCOW, May 11 (RIA Novosti)


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: maritime; somalipirates
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To: BallyBill

Russian equivalent of 50 cal or 30mm cannon fire?


21 posted on 05/11/2010 10:41:12 AM PDT by piytar (Ammo is hard to find! Bought some lately? Please share where at www.ammo-finder.com)
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To: BallyBill

Rule .303


22 posted on 05/11/2010 10:42:27 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: Clioman

How much you want to bet NO OTHER RUSSIAN VESSEL GETS HIJACKED


23 posted on 05/11/2010 10:43:10 AM PDT by Mr. K (This administration IS WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY!)
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To: LouAvul

They released them - one at a time, over the edge, after they were ventilated to help regulate air pressure at the bottom of the ocean...


24 posted on 05/11/2010 10:44:38 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Liberal Logic: Mandatory health insurance is constitutional - enforcing immigration law is not.)
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To: LouAvul
"Let the pirates go, Cap'n? Aye aye..."


25 posted on 05/11/2010 10:44:47 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (Make full use of the First, so we aren't forced to exercise the tools of the Second.)
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To: LouAvul
Gee, the boat looked fine when they took off.


26 posted on 05/11/2010 10:46:04 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: LouAvul

The same thing happened on LOST last week.


27 posted on 05/11/2010 10:46:36 AM PDT by Gomez (killer of threads)
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To: milwguy
Bill Casey said that the Russians spoke Hezbollah's language. In the early 80’s when Western diplomats were routinely being kidnapped in Beirut, a Russian diplomat was briefly seized. Two of the kidnappers cousins were found dead with their penises sewed into their mouths and the Russian hostage was promptly freed. As Bill Casey said ...
28 posted on 05/11/2010 10:46:50 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.)
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To: Mr. K
How much you want to bet NO OTHER RUSSIAN VESSEL GETS HIJACKED

And that, sir, is the moral of the story. Putin knows how to get his point across. Would that we were so forthright. Alas, we have a limpwristed femboy for a president, not a reincarnation of Ivan the Terrible nor a cowboy, and no one is afraid of limpwristed femboys.

29 posted on 05/11/2010 10:47:48 AM PDT by ottbmare (I could agree wth you, but then we'd both be wrong.)
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To: gaijin
1. I usually believe Pravda before the NYT

2. I like many Russian decisions more than American ones

I agree. Who would have thought this old Cold War vet would be cheering for the Ruskis?

/johnny

30 posted on 05/11/2010 10:47:55 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: LouAvul

IF this, by some chance, happened via the US, the entire world would be outraged. Obamster would have to be in nonstop apology mode to no end. (But, the US would not do this under Obamster’s reign.)


31 posted on 05/11/2010 10:48:55 AM PDT by Jane Long (America, while you were sleeping the Socialists took over.)
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To: LouAvul
On behalf of the sharks allow me to say, "спасибо"
32 posted on 05/11/2010 10:50:06 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Mr. K
How much you want to bet NO OTHER RUSSIAN VESSEL GETS HIJACKED

This is a bunch so stupid that they tried to hijack a U.S. Navy ship.

They'll stumble their way into hijacking another one, but your main point is correct: If we'd make this type of thing SOP, it'd put this problem to an end.

33 posted on 05/11/2010 10:51:24 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: LouAvul

Apparently the pirates couldn’t swim too well. heh.

Some soldier must have put some holes in their boat.


34 posted on 05/11/2010 10:51:32 AM PDT by GeronL (http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: LouAvul
This is simply a matter of a bit of oversight on part of the Russians. Anybody could have forgotten to completely provision the raft.

I'm sure they tried to be complete about it, you know, providing stuff for a voyage: pins, needles, broken glass, nails and screws... probably just forgot to include the raft repair kit, while they were packing up the boat for them. If they were rushing a bit, ie: russian', they might have forgotten to encase the pins/needles in their original boxes.

35 posted on 05/11/2010 10:52:06 AM PDT by C210N (0bama, Making the world safe for Marxism)
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To: LouAvul

Good for the Russians.


36 posted on 05/11/2010 10:54:44 AM PDT by Gurn (Remember Mountain Meadows.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Or a little package on the bottom, with a timer...


37 posted on 05/11/2010 10:55:25 AM PDT by Little Ray (The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!)
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To: LouAvul

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to be a country that is willing to take up for itself at the very least.


38 posted on 05/11/2010 10:58:58 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: LouAvul

I think the odds of pirates seizing another Russian vessel just dropped significantly.


39 posted on 05/11/2010 10:59:03 AM PDT by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: LouAvul

Don’t put up a link from Russia. I’m now trying to delete Malware from the link to the site. Thanks a lot.


40 posted on 05/11/2010 11:01:28 AM PDT by em2vn
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