Pirates
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- gjd
Capture Saudi Oil Tanker in the Indian Ocean, possibly the largest vessel ever captured at sea.
- jshaw30
that is incredible....
- flashbender0
looks like the Canadian navy is doing a bang-up job over there.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/am…
note the date of the article is August
- digdre0
how the hell did they managed to get on that freakin boat
- OSFA1
- flashbender0
I'm pretty sure that the follow is code for "we're going to go kill all the pirates and get our ship back"
"Vela response teams have been mobilised and are working to ensure the safe release of crew members and the vessel," it added.
- CALLES0
where can i sign up! sounds like a blast!
- JazX1
- mg330
Here there by pirates!
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&…
That's the location of the port referenced in the original article, Eyl, Somalia. That's probably the pirate base right there.
- ukit0
- janne760
they should upgrade, software piracy is where it's at...
- thelukeandrews0
hhaha Janne
was watching the news this expert said that they get the money, release the prisoners, then leave in their own time. I just dont get it, can't a security agency, like the guys that deliver the cash, just snipe the bastards on the way out?
- JazX0
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/f…"You don't stop pirates by talking to them," he says with the kind of pragmatism which comes after decades at sea. "You stop them by aiming guns at them."
- that guy is F*CKING awesome!JazX
- //of course he is...madirish
- well I guess you think it's not ok to protect yourself and your crew then. LOLJazX
- No, you stop them by shooting them and then hanging their burning corpses off the bow of your ship.TheBlueOne
- Exactly! We agree...JazX