The media keeps harping on the fact that this captured robber is poor and a minor. Though he doesn't speak any English, He is sophisticated enough to try and be deceitful. Somebody is lying to the police about his name and age. There are two versions of both circulating at this point. His version and that of his mother. Are we supposed to be sorry because we foiled this young thief's initiation? His mother claimed he was duped by gangsters with money. Drugs or the lure of quick, easy money is usually what drives people to commit crimes anyway. So that doesn't make this case unique. It's also very doubtful the gangsters sought him out. What would have happened if he had got away? Probably that same sobbing mother appealing to the president to release her son. Would have been in Somalia spending the loot. We didn't catch some teenager with a fake I.D. buying beer. He was a pirate in training.Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Pirate In Training
The media keeps harping on the fact that this captured robber is poor and a minor. Though he doesn't speak any English, He is sophisticated enough to try and be deceitful. Somebody is lying to the police about his name and age. There are two versions of both circulating at this point. His version and that of his mother. Are we supposed to be sorry because we foiled this young thief's initiation? His mother claimed he was duped by gangsters with money. Drugs or the lure of quick, easy money is usually what drives people to commit crimes anyway. So that doesn't make this case unique. It's also very doubtful the gangsters sought him out. What would have happened if he had got away? Probably that same sobbing mother appealing to the president to release her son. Would have been in Somalia spending the loot. We didn't catch some teenager with a fake I.D. buying beer. He was a pirate in training.
The French Navy said they seized 11 pirates Sunday after they apparently mistook a French military vessel for a commercial ship and made a run at it off the coast of Kenya.
ReplyDeleteTwo pirate assault boats approached the Nivose "at great speed," Capt. Christophe Prazuck said, but a French helicopter intervened before the attackers had time to fire at the French navy ship.
The Nivose: Pirates off the coast of Kenya messed with the wrong ship Sunday. Apparently, two pirate assault boats mistook the Nivose, a French military vessel, for a commercial ship and approached it "at great speed." A French helicopter intervened and the pirates, above, were seized.
The helicopter fired warning shots, he said.
The pirates, who had a mother ship as well as the two assault boats, are being held for questioning on the Nivose, Prazuck said. The vessels were carrying AK-47 rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, but the pirates did not fire, he said.
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Now The incident took place about 1,000 km (620 miles) east of Mombasa, Kenya, at 8:30 a.m. local time (0430 GMT) he added.
In the past three weeks, the Nivose has intercepted 24 suspected pirates as part of a European Union anti-piracy operation off the coast of Somalia, which has become a piracy hotspot.
Over the past year, more than 100 suspected pirates have been picked up, Prazuck said. Of that total, 27 have been released, and more than 70 taken to jail in France, handed to authorities in Somalia or taken to Kenya under an EU agreement with the government in Nairobi.
The Nivose seized three other suspected pirates Thursday morning, the French military spokesman said, but released them the next day for lack of evidence.
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Modern-Day PiracyReuters500 photos Forces from France's ship Nivose intercept Somali pirates on Sunday May 3, 2009, in this video grab image from a video released by the French Ministry of Defence May 4, 2009. French frigate Nivose captured 11 suspected pirates on Sunday off the coast of Somalia after they mistook a French naval ship for a commercial vessel and started heading toward it in preparation for an attack.(Note: Please disable your pop-up blocker)
But a day later, the Seychelles coast guard picked up the same three men. They claimed they were fishermen, but had no license to fish in the Seychelles exclusive economic zone, Prazuck said.
Pirates seized a ship that was carrying wheat and used vehicles to Mogadishu, Somalia, on Saturday, according to NATO, which also patrols the area.
The ship, the Almezaan, now appears to be heading for a Somali village called Harradera, known as a pirate base, Cmdr. Chris Davies told CNN.
The ship did not send a distress signal until 4 a.m. Sunday, 18 hours after it was hijacked in the Indian Ocean, he said. No NATO ships were in the area at the time, he added.
The Panamanian-flagged ship had a crew of 18 Indians as of April 2008, the last listing for it on the Web site of the International Transport Workers' Federation.
Pirates also hijacked a British-owned bulk carrier in the Indian Ocean. The MV Ariana was carrying 35,000 tons of soya about 250 nautical miles (287 miles) northwest of the Seychelles when it was seized around dawn.
The crew members are Ukrainians and they are not believed to be harmed, NATO said. It is unclear how many crew members were aboard the vessel and how it came to be attacked. NATO said it was unaware of ransom demands or any threats against those aboard.
Skip over this content NATO said a European Union Protection Aircraft has been deployed to monitor and track the MV Ariana, which is making its way toward Somalia -- the epicenter of the pirate industry.
Piracy has been soaring off the coast of eastern Africa -- particularly Somalia, which has not had an effective government since 1991.
Somali pirates have defied foreign navies patrolling the waters and have collected large ransoms from shipping companies. Ransoms started out in the tens of thousands of dollars and have since climbed into the millions.
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