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.
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Next time there will be no evidence of the somalis or their boats. Russian navy target practice.
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?
The penalty for piracy is death by hanging. The Russians didn’t want to waste their rope...............
The Russians understand psychology.
3) Can’t find your way home? Don’t leave home.
Never thought I'd see the day...
(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.
SHARKS gotta eat too —BURP!
So really...what’s the problem? They are all with moe hamid and allah now. Isn’t that their basic aspiration?
The public hanging of every pirate caught, posted on YouTube is another good option!
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.
It WAS cruel.
Next time the Russians should simply hang the SOBs from the yardarm.
hmmm.....Russia vs. Somalia....wonder what the early line action is on THAT one??
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.
The Ruskies have been fighting Muzzies for hundreds of years; Muzzie pirates are child’s play.
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.
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
Go back to keelhauling! Was bad enough in the days of sailing ships, but supertankers are a whole new level!
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.
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