Probably shouldn't do that, they might set them free. :-)
I'm okay with that. The Russians "set them free" 2000 miles from land; with no food, water, or navigation equipment; in a leaky inflatable boat, and sometimes with holes in their bodies. That strikes me as a good solution to the problem, especially if an occasional survivor makes it back to dry land.
The ten Somali pirates captured by the Russian navy last week may have perished after their release. Marines seized them during an operation to free a hijacked Russian oil tanker far from shore. Russia initially said the 10 pirates would be taken to Moscow to face criminal charges, but, and at Western officials’ surprise, were released instead. Now there is even more surprise, the pirates were set adrift in the Indian Ocean to make their own way home.
The tanker, the Moscow University, was seized on the 5th of May, some 350 km off the Yemeni island of Socotra, as it sailed for China. And the Marines from the Russian warship stormed the Tanker the following day, freeing the 23 Russian crew members who had locked themselves in a safe room after disabling their ship. “The Russian navy had been within its rights to release the suspects”, the spokesman for the E.U “Navforce” in Somalia said...
Turn them over to the Russians.
Probably shouldn’t do that, they might set them free. :-)”””
I am not so sure.
Russia had an oil tanker (I think) that was pirated off Somalia. Demands for ransom were made.
Russian military ship & sailors found the ship with the pirates on board, along with the pirate’s ship in attendance.
They stormed the ship—handcuffed all the pirates to the rails of their boat & blew it up waaaay out in the ocean, away from land. Sent the boat to the bottom, with all the pirates handcuffed to the debris.
That’s the way to deal with pirates, IMO !!!!!