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<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><b>
Somali pirates seize ship and US crew off Horn of Africa</b>

Danish-owned Maersk Alabama with 21 American crew members aboard hijacked in Indian Ocean, maritime group says

Somali pirates have seized a Danish-owned, US-operated container ship with 21 American crew members aboard, in the latest attack on shipping off the Horn of Africa, a regional maritime group said today.

Andrew Mwangura, of the Kenya-based East African Seafarers' Assistance Programme, said the Maersk Alabama, a 17,000-tonne ship, was hijacked in the Indian Ocean, 400 miles from the Somalian capital, Mogadishu.

"All its 21 American crew members are believed to be safe," Mwangura said.

The US navy confirmed that a US-flagged ship with 21 crew members was hijacked early today off the eastern coast of Somalia.

Lieutenant Nathan Christensen, a US navy spokesman, said the attack took place northeast of Eyl, a town in the northern Puntland region of Somalia. He said there were US citizens aboard the ship, but declined to say how many or to name the ship until the family members of the crew are notified.

The seizure is the latest in a flurry of hijacks in the region. Analysts said an improvement in the weather accounted for the upsurge of attacks as choppy seas in the early part of the year made it difficult for the fast but small pirate boats to operate.

The Somali pirates, in a classic game of cat and mouse with western warships, are targeting new areas, avoiding the Gulf of Aden. Foreign governments have deployed more than 20 warships from more than a dozen countries – including Russia, China, France and India – to patrol sea lanes in the Gulf of Aden and parts of the Indian Ocean through which about 16,000 ships pass each year.

"What is critical is they [the pirates] are threatening trade routes in neighbouring countries such as Kenya," said Pottengal Mukundan, director of the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) in London. "Yes warships have been deployed to the region and they're doing a fantastic job, but there are not enough vessels."<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Rest of the story here :
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/08/somali-pirates-ship-hijack" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/0...tes-ship-hijack</a>
 
Time tew be a shellin' thar coastal villages an' towns, Thagarr! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/danse1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":dance" border="0" alt="danse1.gif" />
 
<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97ED1BO0&show_article=1" target="_blank">AMERICAN CREW TAKES SHIP BACK FROM PIRATES!</a> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/slap.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":slap" border="0" alt="slap.gif" /> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thwalkplank.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":walkplank" border="0" alt="thwalkplank.gif" /> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/danse1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":dance" border="0" alt="danse1.gif" />
 
Great link Fred Bob! Thanks mate <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/me.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":onya" border="0" alt="me.gif" /> ... I try to get a little sleep and almost miss all the excitement! I caught this report on CNN HLN when I woke up this afternoon.

<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><b>Pirates hold U.S. ship's skipper, officer aboard says</b>

(CNN) -- The crew of a U.S.-flagged container ship has retaken control of the ship from pirates but its captain is being held hostage, the freighter's second officer said Wednesday.
Attackers hijacked the Maersk Alabama, shown here, formerly known as the Alva Maersk.

Attackers hijacked the Maersk Alabama, shown here, formerly known as the Alva Maersk.

"There's four Somali pirates, and they've got our captain," Ken Quinn told CNN in a ship-to-shore phone interview.

Capt. Richard Phillips is being held in the Maersk Alabama's 28-foot lifeboat, Quinn said.

The crew had a plan to make an exchange for their captain.

"We had a pirate we took and kept him for 12 hours," Quinn told CNN. "We tied him up and he was our prisoner."

The crew gave back their prisoner but the pirates reneged on the plan and are continuing to hold Phillips captive.

"So now we're just trying to offer them whatever we can, food, but it's not working too good," he said.

Quinn said the crew is trying to hold off the pirates for three more hours until a coalition warship is expected to arrive.

The 780-foot (237-meter) Alabama was carrying food aid bound for the Kenyan port of Mombasa when it was seized, the ship's owner said. Twenty American crew members were on board.

Quinn said the pirates were armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles, but the freighter's crew carried no weapons.

The Americans locked themselves in the compartment that contains the ship's steering gear, where they remained for about 12 hours. The pirates "got frustrated because they couldn't find us," he said.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Rest of the story here :
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/08/ship.hijacked/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/08...cked/index.html</a>
 
<!--quoteo(post=311785:date=Apr 8 2009, 08:20 AM:name=Fred Bob)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Fred Bob @ Apr 8 2009, 08:20 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=311785"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Time tew be a shellin' thar coastal villages an' towns, Thagarr! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/danse1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":dance" border="0" alt="danse1.gif" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Aircraft carriers are nice and all, but in my opinion, a US battleship parked off the coast shelling them with Volkswagen sized shells would sure get someones attention in a hurry! It's a real shame they have all been mothballed.

Here is the complete CNN interview :
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2009/04/08/nr.phillips.quinn.interview.cnn" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/200...n.interview.cnn</a>
 
From the New York Times....

<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->WASHINGTON — A U.S. Navy destroyer kept close watch Thursday on a lifeboat holding four Somali pirates and their hostage — an American ship captain — one day after the pirates briefly seized a United States-flagged cargo ship off the coast of Africa.

The pirates boarded and seized the unarmed container ship, Maersk Alabama, taking 20 American sailors hostage on Wednesday. Although the crew managed to retake the ship within hours, the pirates were still holding the ship’s captain as they fled the ship in an unpowered lifeboat.

The captain was identified as Richard Phillips, of Underhill, Vermont.

A distress call from the ship brought the destroyer, the USS Bainbridge, to the scene, and other warships were en route Thursday as well.

“The Navy has command of the situation,” a spokesman for Maersk Line Ltd., Kevin Speers, said Thursday morning.

The Alabama was the first American vessel to be hijacked in the pirate-infested waters off the Horn of Africa. More than 150 ships were attacked off Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden last year, according to the International Maritime Bureau, and there have been six attacks in the region in the past week. Sixteen ships are currently being held for ransom by seagoing pirate gangs.

In this case, however, the crew of the Alabama managed to disable the ship at about the time the pirates came on board, according to a senior American military official. The four hijackers, apparently overrun by the ship’s crew, then loaded Mr. Phillips into a lifeboat, shoved off from the Alabama and began negotiating for his release.

The 508-foot-long Alabama was bound for the Kenyan port of Mombasa and was carrying food and other agricultural materials for the World Food Program, a United Nations agency, and other clients, including the United States Agency for International Development.

American officials praised the crew’s decision to disable the ship. The Alabama’s second in command, Capt. Shane Murphy, is the son of an instructor at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy who teaches a course on how to repel pirate attacks.

At the White House, military and national security officials tracked the developments from the Situation Room, and they provided several briefings to President Obama and other administration officials.

Mr. Obama first learned of the hijacking early on Wednesday morning after he returned to the White House from his overseas trip, and he later convened an interagency group on maritime safety, aides said. The White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, said, “Our top priority is the personal safety of the crew members on board.”

The Gulf of Aden, one of the world’s busiest and most important shipping lanes, is patrolled by an anti-piracy flotilla from the European Union and a U.S.-led coalition of ships, plus warships from Iran, Russia, India, China, Japan and other nations. But pirates using mother ships — oceangoing trawlers that carry speedier attack vessels — have extended their reach into the waters far off the East African coast. On Saturday, for example, a German freighter was hijacked about 400 miles offshore, between Kenya and the Seychelles.

At the time of the attack on the Alabama, the closest patrol vessel was about 300 nautical miles away, a Navy spokesman said.

“It’s that old saying: where the cops aren’t, the criminals are going to go,” said Lt. Nathan Christensen, a Fifth Fleet spokesman. “We patrol an area of more than one million square miles. The simple fact of the matter is that we can’t be everywhere at one time.”<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

This is a 2 page story, and you can find the rest of it here :
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/world/africa/10pirates.html?ref=global-home" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/world/af...ref=global-home</a>
 
Looks like yet another standoff ...

<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><b>Pirate Band Sending Reinforcements to Kidnappers, Group Says</b>

By Hamsa Omar

April 9 (Bloomberg) -- The band of pirates whose members hijacked a U.S.-flagged ship yesterday in the Indian Ocean is sending reinforcements to the kidnappers holding the captain hostage, said a member of the group who spoke from Somalia.

The man, who called himself Da’ud and identified himself as one of the pirates, spoke by phone from the area of Eyl, Somalia. He said he had been in contact with the four pirates who boarded the Maersk Alabama and who then took the captain hostage on a lifeboat that has stalled off the coast.

Any new pirates arriving at the scene will be confronted by the destroyer USS Bainbridge, which has moved into the area and is getting images fed to it from a drone flying over the lifeboat, an American official said.

The U.S. crew regained control of the Alabama yesterday and CNN reported it is sailing for Mombasa, Kenya, its original destination. The captain, Richard Phillips, surrendered himself to the pirates to secure the safety of his crew, the Associated Press reported.

“We sent reinforcement men to help them,” said Da’ud, who declined to identify himself further or give a contact for the pirates on the scene. The reinforcing pirates are going to the area in two groups, one of which is already at sea, he said.

“The last information we received from them was that American small airplanes and helicopters are flying over them while the lifeboat’s fuel is running out,” Da’ud said. “The situation will end soon. Either the Americans take their man and sink the boat with my colleagues, or we will soon recover the captain and my colleagues in the coming hours.

“But if they, Americans, attempt to use any military operation I am sure that nobody will survive,” he said.

Food Aid

Sailors on the Alabama, which was carrying food aid and had a crew of 20 U.S. citizens, regained control of the ship after it was attacked yesterday about 500 miles (800 kilometers) south of the Gulf of Aden in the Indian Ocean.

Maersk Lines is the Norfolk, Virginia-based U.S. unit of A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S, whose headquarters is in Copenhagen. The freed ship is on its way to Mombasa with armed guards aboard and the crew will be swapped out and be able to return home, the father of crew member Shane Murphy told CNN.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. was “deeply concerned” about the incident and called on the world to “come together to end the scourge of piracy.”

The lifeboat “has run out of gas,” Clinton said today.

FBI ‘Fully Engaged’

FBI negotiators have been called in by the U.S. Navy to assist with negotiations and are “fully engaged in this matter,” Federal Bureau of Investigation spokesman Bill Carter said today. He declined to comment further.

A Boeing Co. drone has been monitoring the lifeboat since the USS Bainbridge entered the vessel’s vicinity, the U.S. official said.

“There is no way the Bainbridge is going to allow that lifeboat to go anywhere,” said Rear Admiral Richard Gurnon, president of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in the Cape Cod town of Bourne. “The pirates are going to quickly realize they have two options: Surrender Phillips, maybe you get in jail for two years, or harm Phillips and face instant death.”<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Rest of the story here :
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aC8OSWpJyKeA&refer=home" target="_blank">http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...&refer=home</a>
 
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><b>American Captain Tries Daring Escape from Somali Pirates</b>
Both Sides Send Reinforcements to Pirate Standoff
By MARTHA RADDATZ
April 10, 2009

The American captain being held hostage by Somali pirates dove into the water during the night in an attempt to escape, but was quickly recaptured, Defense Department officials said today.

The daring overnight escape attempt by Capt. Richard Phillips was the Vermont sailor's latest bit of heroics in the four day old drama on the high seas 300 miles from the nearest coastline.
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Somalis demand ransom money but negotiations seem to go nowhere.

Phillips had earlier volunteered to be a hostage after his unarmed men took back their freighter, the Maersk Alabama, from the pirates. The captain stepped forward to be a hostage to avoid a bloody battle with the gun toting pirates.

Phillips, 53, didn't get far in his effort to single handedly end the standoff. He was quickly recaptured by the four pirates in the 28-foot open lifeboat. The pirates, out of gas but armed with AK-47 rifles, insist on taking Phillips back to Somalia to hold him for ransom.

Tensions escalated around the little boat today with both sides sending reinforcements to the scene.

The U.S. destroyer Bainbridge has been keeping an eye on the four pirates in recent days and is being joined by another warship, the Halyburton, which carries two helicopters.

The pirates also claim to be sending reinforcements, hijacked ships with their captured crews as human shields.

"The pirates have summoned assistance -- skiffs and motherships are heading towards the area from the coast," a Nairobi-based diplomat, who spoke on condition on anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media, told the Associated Press. "We knew they were gathering yesterday."

A Somali pirate identified as Mohamed Samaw in the pirate stronghold in central Eyl, told the AP that among the ships heading to their colleagues' rescue was a Taiwanese fishing vessel seized Monday and the German cargo ship Hansa Stavanger, seized earlier this month.

"They had asked us for reinforcement and we have already sent a good number of well-equipped colleagues, who were holding a German cargo ship," said another pirate who asked that only his first name, Badow, be used to protect him from reprisals.

"We are not intending to harm the captain, so that we hope our colleagues would not be harmed as long as they hold him," Badow said.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Rest of the story here :
<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=7305282&page=1" target="_blank">http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?...5282&page=1</a>
 
Why didn't de snipers start a shootin' when de Cap'n went in de water? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mybad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":facepalm" border="0" alt="mybad.gif" />
 
Good question there Fred Bob! They could have at least provided covering fire allowing him to swim farther away from the boat. I really don't understand it ...I'm assuming they didn't want to violate that U.N. resolution protecting the pirates "human rights" <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" /> There is only one way to deal with pirates, and it seems that the only nation on the planet that remembers that are the French!

<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><b>French free sailboat from pirates, 1 hostage dies</b>

PARIS (AP) — The French Navy stormed a French sailboat being held by pirates in the Gulf of Aden, off the coast of Somalia, killing one hostage and two pirates in the operation, a presidential statement said Friday.

The navy also freed four remaining hostages, including one child, who were seized Saturday when pirates boarded their ship, the Tanit. Three other pirates were taken prisoner.

It was not immediately clear where the rescue operation occurred. It did not appear to be in any proximity to the current standoff involving an American captain being held hostage.

It was the third time the French have freed hostages from the hands of pirates but the first time that a hostage had been killed. The French presidential statement said the boat was being steered toward the Somali coast.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy's office said the death of one of five hostages came at the end of a two-day ordeal in the pirate-infested waters where the seizure of vessels by Somali pirates has become a common occurrence.

"During the operation, a hostage was unfortunately killed," the statement said, adding that the four other hostages, including the child, were "safe and sound."

France's policy is to refuse to accept acts of piracy and avoid having French citizens taken ashore as hostages, the statement said.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Rest of the story here :
<a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hPvqTr_AWcOn-W2FAuK6fzmVLfyQD97FOJD80" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/articl...mVLfyQD97FOJD80</a>
 
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><b>Pirates seeking hijacked lifeboat turn back</b>

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Pirates holding a German cargo ship returned to port Saturday after failing to reach a lifeboat containing four pirates and their American hostage, a local journalist told CNN.

The guided missile frigate USS Halyburton, with helicopter capabilities, is now at the scene.

The German ship Hansa Stavanger was among several hijacked vessels that pirates were using to reach the lifeboat some 300 miles off the Somali coast, a Somali journalist told CNN.

The ship had set sail to help the pirates holding Capt. Richard Phillips, but turned back because of the U.S. naval presence, the journalist said. The Hansa Stavanger is now at the Somali port of Eyl, the journalist said.

The Hansa Stavanger, with a crew of 24, was hijacked April 4 off the Somali coast.

Pirates have been searching the waters off Africa's coast to try to find the lifeboat, a U.S. military official with knowledge of the situation said Friday. They are using hijacked vessels and skiffs launched from larger ships, the official said.

The USS Halyburton, with helicopter capabilities, has now joined the USS Bainbridge in the area, and a third ship, the USS Boxer -- with a medical facility aboard -- should be there by the end of the day.

Phillips is being held by four gunmen in the covered, fiberglass lifeboat. He jumped overboard at one point to try to escape, but one of the pirates jumped into the water after him and brought him back onboard the 28-foot boat.

The pirates fired shots, the military official said, without providing further details.

Phillips appeared to be tied up by the pirates after the escape attempt, a Defense Department official told CNN.
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For the U.S. Navy, bringing in more firepower is more than just a means to resolve a hostage situation, said Chris Lawrence, CNN's Pentagon correspondent.

Attacks in the area have picked up so drastically in recent months that the Navy has to reposition some of its fleet to deal with the threats, he said.

The pirates have shown no signs of giving in.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Rest of the story here :
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/11/somalia.u.s.ship/" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/11/somalia.u.s.ship/</a>
 
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><b>Canadian warship thwarts pirates again</b>


Canwest News ServiceApril 12, 2009

For the second time in a week, a Canadian warship has helped fend off a potential attack from pirates off the coast of Somalia.

The HMCS Winnipeg - which is taking part in the NATO-led counter-piracy mission known as Operation Allied Protector - and a Spanish ship responded Friday night after a civilian vessel sent out a distress call following an apparent pirate attack in the Gulf of Aden.

The Canadian ship launched its helicopter, which located the suspected pirates, the ship's commanding officer, Cmdr. Craig Baines, told CTVSaturday.

A boarding team was then dispatched to conduct a weapons search of a skiff and a larger ship.

``As we approached the vessel, it was the dark of night, and they were actually throwing items overboard, which we believe were possibly the weapons used in the attack,'' Baines told CTV.

On April 4, the HMCS Winnipeg thwarted another attempted pirate attack when it spotted three pirate skiffs closing in on an Indian merchant vessel, the Pacific Opal, in the Gulf of Aden.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Rest of the story here :
<a href="http://www.canada.com/Canadian+warship+thwarts+pirates+again/1489503/story.html" target="_blank">http://www.canada.com/Canadian+warship+thw...9503/story.html</a>
 
Stallion beat me to the front page! Good work mate! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/me.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":onya" border="0" alt="me.gif" /> I was watching baseball. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

Here is the BBC report on Captain Phillips rescue...

<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><b>
US captain rescued from pirates</b>

The captain of a US cargo ship taken hostage by Somali pirates has been released and is safe, the US Navy says.

Three pirates were killed in the operation to free Captain Richard Phillips after being held in a lifeboat for several days.

Captain Phillips was "resting comfortably" aboard a US warship after a medical check-up, a spokesman for the Navy's 5th Fleet said.

Capt Phillips family was informed of his release hours before it became official.

He was seized when pirates attacked his ship, the Maersk Alabama, on Wednesday.

On Friday he failed in an attempt to swim free.

The order for US snipers to kill the pirates came when "the on-scene [US navy] commander determined that the captain was in imminent danger," Vice Admiral William Gortney, head of the US Naval Central Command, said in a Pentagon briefing from Bahrain.

"He had a weapon aimed at him - that would be my interpretation of imminent danger," said Admiral Gortney.

After the pirates had been shot, troops sailed to the lifeboat and released Capt Phillips, who was tied up inside it.

US forces apparently took advantage of the fact that one of the pirates was negotiating on a US Navy vessel when the incident happened.

The surviving pirate is now in US military custody and "being cooperative" according to the navy.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Rest of the story here :
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7996087.stm" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7996087.stm</a>
 
Beat me as well, but this was wonderful news. For something that could have gone so wrong, you couldn't have asked for it to go more right. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbs1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":2up" border="0" alt="thumbs1.gif" />
 
I agree Old Salt, I was very glad to see him rescued safe and sound. I was a bit worried after the failed escape attempt that this would drag out for an extended period of time. It looks like some aren't to happy with the outcome however...

<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><b>Somali pirates vow revenge over comrades' killings</b>
Sun Apr 12, 2009 4:51pm EDT

By Abdiqani Hassan

BOSASSO, Somalia, April 12 (Reuters) - Somali pirates threatened revenge on Sunday after two separate hostage-rescue raids by foreign forces killed at least five comrades, raising fears of future bloodshed on the high seas.

The latest raid by U.S. forces on Sunday that saved an American hostage and one by France last week have upped the stakes in shipping lanes off the anarchic Horn of Africa nation where buccaneers have defied foreign naval patrols.

"The French and the Americans will regret starting this killing. We do not kill, but take only ransom. We shall do something to anyone we see as French or American from now," Hussein, a pirate, told Reuters by satellite phone.

"We cannot know how or whether our friends on the lifeboat died, but this will not stop us from hijacking," he said.

Sea gangs generally treat their captives well, hoping to fetch top dollar in ransoms.

The worst violence has been an occasional beating.

"We shall revenge," said another pirate, Aden, in Eyl village, a pirate lair on Somalia's eastern coast.

Some fear the U.S. and French operations may make the modern-day pirates more like their more fearsome forbearers.

"The pirates will know from now that anything can happen. The French are doing this, the Americans are doing it. Things will be more violent from now on," said Andrew Mwangura of the Kenya-based East African Seafarers Assistance Programme.

"This is a big wake-up to the pirates. It raises the stakes."<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Rest of the story here :
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/africaCrisis/idUSLC343356" target="_blank">http://www.reuters.com/article/africaCrisis/idUSLC343356</a>
 
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->"We do not kill, but take only ransom... ," Hussein, a pirate, told Reuters.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Oh, such ETHICAL an' PRINCIPLED pyrates! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mybad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":facepalm" border="0" alt="mybad.gif" />
Them evil French an' Americans! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
Thar be no principled pyrates in PA's waters. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />


@Thagarr - They may be pissed, but they may think twice when they see either of those two flags flying on certain vessels. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/pirate3.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p2" border="0" alt="pirate3.gif" />
 
Mebbe de Navy oughta capture a few pyrates an' sell dem fellers back tew thar families fer a few goats and some quat! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
Good plan Fred Bob! A whole new avenue for military funding. Goat meat spaghetti might be a welcome change for some of those Navy sailors! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
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