Somali pirates stupid or the French navy look like a cruise ship???
05-05-2009, 10:24 AM
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Somali pirates stupid or the French navy look like a cruise ship???
Oops, Pirates Rush French Military Ship
(May 4) - 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.
Two 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 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.
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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f'n french, They let them go..... Why dont the french just go back home. Your navy looks like a joke and if you dont detain these guys and send them to the U.S. terrorism day camp. Then why even be there. I bet they even fed them before returning them back to their parents.
(May 4) - 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.
Two 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 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.
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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f'n french, They let them go..... Why dont the french just go back home. Your navy looks like a joke and if you dont detain these guys and send them to the U.S. terrorism day camp. Then why even be there. I bet they even fed them before returning them back to their parents.
05-05-2009, 11:33 AM
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Well besides the millions of $$ of ILLEGAL fishing by other countries in Somali's zones, there is still the predicament of people dumping nuclear waste in their zone, getting Somali people sick. But we'll just pretend the media is accurate (even though they're under FCC rules like usual) and really actually researched why Pirates exist and why they're all from Somali.
05-05-2009, 12:14 PM
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I agree and disagree with you iLogin. Just because things are bad in their country, doesn't give them the right to don bandanas and AK47s and go pirating boats. If they weren't so hostile, they could implore the rest of the world to help protect their waters rather than stealing from and killing others.
05-05-2009, 12:21 PM
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Well besides the millions of $$ of ILLEGAL fishing by other countries in Somali's zones, there is still the predicament of people dumping nuclear waste in their zone, getting Somali people sick. But we'll just pretend the media is accurate (even though they're under FCC rules like usual) and really actually researched why Pirates exist and why they're all from Somali.
05-05-2009, 01:04 PM
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I guess they didnt see the big cannon on the bow section.
I say toss the pirates back in the water. If they are real pirates, they'll hitch up on the back of a dolphin or a stingray.
If not....sharkbait!
I say toss the pirates back in the water. If they are real pirates, they'll hitch up on the back of a dolphin or a stingray.
If not....sharkbait!
