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Somalia rips Russian navy for casting captured pirates adrift(cruel Russians?)
Globe and Mail ^ | 05/14/10 | Abdiaziz Hassan

Posted on 05/14/2010 5:44:20 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Somalia rips Russian navy for casting captured pirates adrift

Pirates vow revenge on any Russians they capture after crew of hijackers abandoned in Gulf on Aden without navigation equipment or much hope of survival

Abdiaziz Hassan

Nairobi — Reuters Published on Friday, May. 14, 2010 8:25AM EDT Last updated on Friday, May. 14, 2010 8:29AM EDT

Somalia’s transitional government called on Russia on Friday to explain why it had cut 10 Somali pirates adrift in the Gulf on Aden without navigation equipment or much hope of survival.

Russian forces last week stormed a hijacked oil tanker in a rescue operation that killed one pirate. Russia said 10 others arrested were later set loose aboard one of the small vessels they used in the attack.

A military official said they were stripped of their weapons and navigation equipment. Russian media later quoted a military source saying the pirates were now likely dead.

(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: pirates; russia; somalia
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Next time there will be no evidence of the somalis or their boats. Russian navy target practice.


21 posted on 05/14/2010 5:53:38 AM PDT by Texas resident (Outlaw fisherman)
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To: john drake
"Oh, I forgot, they’re muslims and we don’t want to upset muslims, do we?"

Maybe Zer0 and H! should go to Somalia to use smart diplomacy to revise the Somalian Piracy curriculum to include a better course on basic geography and navigation?

22 posted on 05/14/2010 5:53:55 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: TigerLikesRooster
without navigation equipment

They couldn't find the direction of Mecca.

poortangs
23 posted on 05/14/2010 5:54:17 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

The penalty for piracy is death by hanging. The Russians didn’t want to waste their rope...............


24 posted on 05/14/2010 5:54:20 AM PDT by Red Badger (When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you'll know that its desolation is NEAR. Luke 21)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

The Russians understand psychology.


25 posted on 05/14/2010 5:54:47 AM PDT by XEHRpa
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To: ArrogantBustard

3) Can’t find your way home? Don’t leave home.


26 posted on 05/14/2010 5:55:39 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Travis McGee
You have to admit, the Russians do know how to properly conduct certain forms of business, and for the right reasons.

Never thought I'd see the day...

27 posted on 05/14/2010 5:55:51 AM PDT by Joe Brower (Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
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To: john drake

(Why on earth does anybody care what Somalia thinks? Oh, I forgot, they’re muslims and we don’t want to upset muslims, do we?)

What is the we crap?
I have no problem offending any terrorist scumbag muslims.


28 posted on 05/14/2010 5:56:36 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA
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To: TigerLikesRooster

SHARKS gotta eat too —BURP!


29 posted on 05/14/2010 5:57:20 AM PDT by dennisw (It all comes 'round again --Fairport)
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To: XEHRpa

So really...what’s the problem? They are all with moe hamid and allah now. Isn’t that their basic aspiration?


30 posted on 05/14/2010 5:57:29 AM PDT by hal ogen ($10 (I think) amounts through the internet from all over the world.)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

The public hanging of every pirate caught, posted on YouTube is another good option!


31 posted on 05/14/2010 5:58:58 AM PDT by WellyP
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To: saganite
I’m willing to bet Russian ships won’t be hijacked anymore.

You're probably right, despite Somalian vows of revenge. But American and other flagships which have exhibited magnanimity toward pirates will be will be targeted. Oh, I almost forgot to mention that the pirates only do what they do because they are poor. Something like the reason illegal aliens are compelled to break US laws.

32 posted on 05/14/2010 5:58:58 AM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop Barry now. He can't help himself.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

It WAS cruel.

Next time the Russians should simply hang the SOBs from the yardarm.


33 posted on 05/14/2010 5:59:18 AM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

hmmm.....Russia vs. Somalia....wonder what the early line action is on THAT one??


34 posted on 05/14/2010 6:01:14 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Say what you will about the Russians, they seem to know how to react to terrorists.

They don’t turn themselves into philosophical pretzels trying to make evil good and good evil. They just kill them.


35 posted on 05/14/2010 6:01:54 AM PDT by I still care (I believe in the universality of freedom -George Bush, asked if he regrets going to war.)
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To: All

The Ruskies have been fighting Muzzies for hundreds of years; Muzzie pirates are child’s play.


36 posted on 05/14/2010 6:02:17 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: luvbach1
But American and other flagships which have exhibited magnanimity toward pirates will be will be targeted.

You may recall that when these jerks jacked up the Maersk Alabama, some of them found out that SEALs are true experts at rifle marksmanship.

Other somalian jerks "vowed revenge".

They tried to jack up Maersk Alabama again.

It went badly.

For the pirates.

37 posted on 05/14/2010 6:02:26 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

This means that the Somali government is supporting the Russians by declaring the pirates were cast adrift rather than out and out executed.

If they were actually executed, that sin is forgiven


38 posted on 05/14/2010 6:02:46 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Ostracize Democrats. There can be no Democrat friends.)
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To: SECURE AMERICA

Go back to keelhauling! Was bad enough in the days of sailing ships, but supertankers are a whole new level!


39 posted on 05/14/2010 6:03:11 AM PDT by catman67
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To: saganite
The Russian example seems like a reasonable response to piracy on the high seas. I’m willing to bet Russian ships won’t be hijacked anymore.

Well, it seems that every highjacker who gets caught gets released. Even the U.S. did it. Apparently because there's no law that allows reliable prosecution. In my opinion, this is what everyone should do to highjackers: Catch them, then transport them to the middle of the Med, then turn them loose with a rubber raft with a slow leak.

40 posted on 05/14/2010 6:03:51 AM PDT by Real Cynic No More (The mighty zero, obama,does not warrant the respect necessary for his name to be capitalized.)
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