Pirates
Indians and pirates
Associated Press reports that the Indian Navy has captured more than 60 pirates after setting their “mother ship” afire; When the Indian ships closed in Sunday night, the pirates fired on them. The hijacked vessel caught fire when the Indian navy returned fire, the navy said. The pirates as well as the crew members jumped […]
Four more pirates for trial
Jerry920 sends us a link to the report that Navy SEALs (I’m guessin’) took back an American oil tanker with no shots fired from four pirates off the coast of Oman yesterday; Twenty-four crew members on the MV Guanabara took refuge in a protected part of the vessel after reporting they were under attack Saturday, […]
Pirates murder 4 American hostages
Tman sends us a link to the Reuters article which announces that the four Americans kidnapped by Somali pirates were murdered by those same pirates; The sequence of events was not immediately clear, but the U.S. military’s Central Command said the dead hostages were only discovered after U.S. forces responded to gunfire and boarded the […]
Blackwater founder to fight pirates?
Yeah, it’s pretty much a product of the chickenshit world we live in. For the last several decades, the whole world has relied on the US to fight everyones’ wars and provide a security umbrella for civilization against the dark forces. Now the US is reluctant to involve itself in some of the more serious […]
S. Korea takes back freighter from pirates
I guess South Korea has drawn a line in the sea lanes; South Korean special forces stormed a hijacked freighter in the Arabian Sea on Friday, rescuing all 21 crew members and killing eight assailants in a rare and bold raid on Somali pirates, South Korea said. The military operation in waters between Oman and […]
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