Posted on 05/12/2010 1:54:29 PM PDT by kronos77
An international maritime treaty means suspected pirates can be tried in the home countries of their victims but some governments have been put off this course of action for fear that convicted pirates might not return to Somalia after serving out their time in jail. Kuznetzov seemed to echo this when he said: "Why should we feed some pirates?"
Russian media reported that the 10 men were set adrift in a boat with no navigational equipment, and that contact was lost with the boat's radio beacon within an hour. However, Commander John Harbour, a spokesman for the EU naval force in Somalia, told the BBC that the loss of navigation equipment would not necessarily be critical and that the signal from the beacon could vanish if the battery ran out or it entered a satellite blind spot.
One Somali news website reported a conversation with an unidentified pirate who claimed the men were indeed dead but said they had all been shot before they were loaded into the skiff. There is no evidence for this account
I would add though, it was an entirely Russian crew, and it was Russian cargo (oil) on its way to China.
It was on the fritz anyway. Batteries were almost dead too. ;-)
... and this is bad because???
In my book, the only thing they did wrong was they neglected to hang them first... although, something tells me that the Russians made sure the inflatable raft had a nice air leak before they gave it away.
When I was little one I though I would never see the day when I would be rooting for the Ruskies, hee hee.
Definitely not Russian flagged, I believe Liberia, flag of convenience.
That is the right thing to do, in my opinion
Said beacon was a timer for a couple pounds of C-4.
gosh, why kill them first?
Think of the mess on the deck!
kill them once on board their own boat!
fish food is fine with me
Why not put 50 cals on ships though, sink the pirates faster
Less deadly pirates and nutritious food for the sea kittens. This is a feel good story, even for PETA!
It seems the Russian catch and release policy is more effective than other nations policies.
I read in another post here on FR earlier this week that the tanker was actually flagged in another country (I think it was Lithuania).
Posters were talking about how this would guarantee that no more Russian ships would be attacked. It was pointed out that this ship was not Russian flagged and that the name of the ship on the bow was in English. This adds a little more danger into the pirate mix since they won’t know if they are grabbing a ship that will get them killed or not.
There's some right thinking if I've ever seen any!
GOOD
Ohhhh. Were they Mirandized first?
I can just hear the Russian Captain...”OK, Guys, here’s the deal. You’re 300 miles from shore and unfortunately this raft has a few tiny leaks in it. So, you need to row really, really fast......”
Should have been keel-hauled first, then set adrift.
keel-haul (from the Urban Dictionary:
A medeival naval punishment that involves tying a line to each arm of the convicted sailor and pushing him off the bow of the ship under sail. The sailor was ‘hauled’ along the barnacle encrusted ‘keel’ of the vessel aided by the movement of the ship and pulled back aboard at the stern of the ship. It hurt really bad.
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