RedRocket1647545505 Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/14/somalia.pirates/index.html (CNN) -- The Liberty Sun, a U.S.-flagged cargo ship bound for Mombasa, Kenya, was attacked Tuesday by Somali pirates, according to a NATO source with direct knowledge of the matter. The pirates never made it onto the ship. The vessel is now being escorted by a coalition ship, still bound for Mombasa. The source could provide no details on where the vessel was attacked but said it is suspected the pirates were based on a mother ship somewhere in the area. Early Tuesday pirates off the coast of Somalia also seized two freighters, proving they remain a force to contend with just days after the U.S. Navy dramatically rescued an American captain held by other pirates. First, pirates in the Gulf of Aden on Tuesday hijacked the MV Irene EM, a 35,000-ton Greek-owned bulk carrier, according to a NATO spokesman and the European Union's Maritime Security Center. The crew of the Greek carrier was thought to be unhurt and ships have been warned to stay clear of the area for fear of further attack, the Security Center said. Later Tuesday, pirates on four skiffs seized the 5,000-ton MV Sea Horse, a Lebanese-owned and Togo-flagged vessel, said Cmdr. Chris Davies of NATO's Maritime Component Command Headquarters in Northwood, England. Details about the ship and its crew weren't immediately available. NATO has an ongoing anti-piracy mission off Somalia called Operation Allied Protector. The mission involves four ships covering more than a million square miles, Davies said. A U.S.-led international naval task force, Combined Task Force-151, is also patrolling in the region. Tuesday's hijackings came two days after sharpshooters from the U.S. Navy SEALs killed three pirates who had been holding U.S. Captain Richard Phillips hostage on the water for days. Phillips had offered himself as a hostage when pirates attacked his vessel, the Maersk Alabama, on Wednesday, officials said. The ship had been on its way to deliver an aid shipment to Mombasa, Kenya. The pirates set off with Phillips on one of the Alabama's covered fiberglass lifeboats. They then drifted about 300 miles off Somalia as the U.S. Navy sent ships to the region. After a five-day high seas standoff, and with negotiations faltering, Navy snipers managed to kill each of the three pirates on the lifeboat with a single bullet to the head, a senior defense official told CNN. The fourth pirate had been aboard the USS Bainbridge when the shootings occurred and was taken into custody. Federal prosecutors will now determine whether that pirate will be prosecuted in the United States, Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd said. The 20 crew members of the Maersk Alabama, who remained free during their captain's ordeal, are already in Mombasa awaiting a reunion with Phillips. They are relaxing at a beach resort in the coastal city under the watchful eyes of the Kenyan military while the Bainbridge takes Phillips to meet them, a U.S. military spokesman said. Maersk, the company that owns their vessel, announced Tuesday that Phillips and the crew will return Wednesday to the United States aboard a chartered flight from Mombasa. They are to land at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, where they are to be reunited with loved ones in a private reception area. The two freighters seized Tuesday are the third and fourth vessels hijacked in two days off the Somali coast. Pirates on Monday hijacked two Egyptian fishing boats carrying a total of between 18 and 24 people, the Egyptian Information Ministry told CNN. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry is working to end the hijacking, the ministry said. Egyptian boats are known to use Somali waters illegally for fishing, taking advantage of the lawless state of the country and the lack of enforcement of its maritime boundaries. Those who have tracked pirate activity in Somalia say it started in the 1980s, when the pirates claimed they were trying to stop the rampant illegal fishing and dumping that continues to this day off the Somali coast. Piracy accelerated after the fall of the Somali government in the early 1990s and began to flourish after shipping companies started paying ransoms. Those payments started out being in the tens of thousands of dollars and have since climbed into the millions. Some experts say companies are simply making the problem worse by paying the pirates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex L. Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 Boats and hoes, boats and hoes, I gotta have me my boats and hoes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sol740 Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 Bomb Somalia ... everyone hates those fuckers anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Removed Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 Bomb Somalia ... everyone hates those fuckers anyway. you know little somalia is up off morse rd right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ODoyle Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 I have somali neighbors...I have contemplated murder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nurkvinny Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 Yes, they are asking for it. And when we give it to them, we'll be blamed for picking on a poor, 3rd world mess of a country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stimmel1647545512 Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 Bomb Somalia ... everyone hates those fuckers anyway. hahahahahahahhahhahaha wow ahhahahahahahahaha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draco-REX Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 1. Load a cargo ship with explosives 2. Let them capture it 3. When they take it home, detonate it Bet they'll think twice the next time. or.. 1. Put SEAL team in a container 2. Ship container 3. Pirates attack 4. SEALS bust out of container and kill every single one of the pirates. Again, I bet they'll think twice the next time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob1647545496 Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 i vote we put a tesla coil on the ships and turn them into big bug zappers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowflake Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 I heard that Columbus, Ohio has the largest Somalian population outside of Somalia... I hope we dont start to see this kinda shit at Alum Creek... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stimmel1647545512 Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 they must have just gotten pirates of the caribbean and they got all inspired like people around here go see fast and furious and drive around all fast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nurkvinny Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 I heard that Columbus, Ohio has the largest Somalian population outside of Somalia... I hope we dont start to see this kinda shit at Alum Creek... Oh man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nurkvinny Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 i vote we put a tesla coil on the ships and turn them into big bug zappers. I like this. I like this a lot. I think at this point, the shipping companies would find it financially beneficial to equip each ship with several armed contractors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex L. Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 Bomb Somalia ... everyone hates those fuckers anyway. I see what you did there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hal Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 We've been talking about this in one of my classes (Professor is on loan from the CIA), very interesting. I'd love to read the presidential daily brief from the day the SEALs took the shots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nurkvinny Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 We've been talking about this in one of my classes (Professor is on loan from the CIA), very interesting. I'd love to read the presidential daily brief from the day the SEALs took the shots. "They were ignorant enough to show all 3 of their torsos at the same time. Situation resolved." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOPR Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 "They were ignorant enough to show all 3 of their torsos at the same time. Situation resolved." from what I read they didn't even need to show their torsos. All three shots were direct hits to the HEAD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drewhop Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 I am predicting blown up pirate houses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hal Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 "They were ignorant enough to show all 3 of their torsos at the same time. Situation resolved." The PDB is based on the assumption that he already knows the details of what happened (eg. who, what, when, where). Really what the PDB does is predict what will happen as a result of a specific event/action. I'd be interested to know what the analysts say the future may hold because of this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTQ B4U Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 you know little somalia is up off morse rd right? Blow that shit up too. I would photograph the scene for free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJ Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 Why don't we just equip all American Flagged ships with 4 of these Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob1647545496 Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 "Our latest hijackings are meant to show that no one can deter us from protecting our waters from the enemy because we believe in dying for our land," Omar Dahir Idle told The Associated Press by telephone from the Somali port of Harardhere. Spokesman Peter Smerdon of the U.N. World Food Program said some of Liberty Sun's food was destined for Somalia. He said the U.N. agency was worried because more food aid was to have been delivered by another cargo ship hijacked by pirates on Tuesday, the Lebanese-owned MV Sea Horse. It was headed to Mumbai, India, to pick up 7,327 tons of WFP food for Somalia. Nearly half of Somalia's 7 million people depend on food aid. "WFP is also extremely concerned that people in Somalia will go hungry unless the Sea Horse is quickly released or a replacement ship can be found," Smerdon said. Pirates say they are fighting illegal fishing and dumping of toxic waste in Somali waters but now operate hundreds of miles from there in a sprawling 1.1 million square-mile danger zone. They can extort $1 million or more for each ship and crew. Kenya estimates they raked in $150 million last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob1647545496 Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 MOMBASA, Kenya – A pirate gang that launched an abortive attack on a second U.S. ship loaded with food aid said Wednesday they were singling out American vessels and would kill their crews. "We will seek out the Americans and if we capture them we will slaughter them," said a 25-year-old pirate based in the Somali port of Harardhere who gave only his first name, Ismail. "We will target their ships because we know their flags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drewhop Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8000447.stm When you get your ass whipped by the french you are not qualified to take on the U.S. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twistedfocus1647545489 Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8000447.stm When you get your ass whipped by the french you are not qualified to take on the U.S. Unless they're a group of ignorant fucks that are being led around by some greedy ignorant fucks claiming that it's for the good of your country. In cases like this, it seems they never learn. I have a strong feeling they're going to fuck around and do something that crosses the line and makes us (the US, not CR) have to bring the pain... which is unfortunate because we'll still come out the bad guys somehow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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