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What to do with a captured pirate

Here's another interesting article...

The Field: The increasingly romantic tale of Somali pirates
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They do commonly kill crews of hijacked ships though. They hold the captain and ship for ransom but the crew is commonly killed. It doesn't much matter if you treat the captain well while you're holding him but you have the crew in a freezer. I imagine it's hard to take the ships without killing the crew but still I do remind myself that they're horribly violent when I get too caught up in dreaming about capt'n jack. :mrgreen:
 
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If they kill people, when they are in Somalia. They'd be hanged anyway
 
wood chipper?
 
talloulou said:
Here's another interesting article...
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Thanks for the link. I clicked through to another article and found this gem:

BOOSAASO, Somalia:

This may be one of the most dangerous towns in Somalia, a place where you can get kidnapped faster than you can wipe the sweat off your brow. But it is also one of the most prosperous.

Money changers walk around with thick wads of hundred-dollar bills. Palatial new houses are rising up next to tin-roofed shanties. Men in jail reminisce, with a twinkle in their eyes, about their days living like kings.

This is the story of Somalia's booming, not-so-underground pirate economy. The country is in chaos, countless children are starving and people are killing one another in the streets of Mogadishu, the capital, for a handful of grain.

But one particular line of work — piracy — seems to be benefiting quite openly from all this lawlessness and desperation. This year, Somali officials say, pirate profits are on track to reach a record $50 million, all of it tax free.
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International Herald Tribune

Yes indeed. Not pirates at all! But the new freedom fighters... championing clean waters, fishing rights, and the health and welfare of the Somali people....

:spin:
 
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Laila said:
They are more brave than me.
If US/EU/Chinese navies are on the sea, i'd lock myself in a downstairs celler rather than venture in the sea lol
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Oh I know. There are tons of stories and pictures on youtube. It's incredible to see some of the dinghys that are used in the hijacking of huge ass ships.
 
Grateful Heart said:
Thanks for the link. I clicked through to another article and found this gem:

International Herald Tribune

Yes indeed. Not pirates at all! But the new freedom fighters... championing clean waters, fishing rights, and the health and welfare of the Somali people....

:spin:
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I enjoyed this story...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/world/africa/01pirates.html?em

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When asked why the pirates needed $20 million to protect themselves from hunger, Mr. Sugule laughed and said, “Because we have a lot of men.”
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bwahahahaha

They are sort of fascinating. For a bunch of fishing people in a desolate village to so successfully take back their seas is rather incredible if you think about it.
 
talloulou said:
Oh I know. There are tons of stories and pictures on youtube. It's incredible to see some of the dinghys that are used in the hijacking of huge ass ships.
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:rofl
I know! They have balls that is for sure.
My jaw dropped the first time the hijacking occured.

I couldn't believe it then and i still can't believe the big ass ships are being owned by a fishing boat
 
Laila said:
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I know! They have balls that is for sure.
My jaw dropped the first time the hijacking occured.

I couldn't believe it then and i still can't believe the big ass ships are being owned by a fishing boat
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I know right? Exactly how do some village people in piss poor Africa manage to hijack -with a few dinghys - a massively huge ship which carries a cargo of tanks, grenades, guns, and ammunition?? :confused:

It's almost like they deserve to win because it's so preposterous that they've been so ridiculously successful.
 
I have been pondering that question for a long time.
How do Somalis in a war torn country and second hand weapons outwit the west's navy and steal ships and then sucessfully get ransoms from them?

I swear, they need a medal or something.
The most amusing hijacking so far is that they stole a ship full of weapons and tanks :doh
 
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Laila said:
I have been pondering that question for a long time.
How do Somalis in a war torn country and second hand weapons outwit the west's navy and steal ships and then sucessfully get ransoms from them?

I swear, they need a reward or something.
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Well by now -after so many successes- they are fully equipped with money, weaponry, GPS, computers; the whole nine yards. I think the dinghys are actually a preferable means of boarding a ship for hijack because the ships are so large and the crews are so small that it's easier to sneak up on them. So I get how they're doing it now.

But at some point, in the beginning, some men had to begin this piracy with nothing but their big ass balls to back them up.

Why shouldn't they have the prettiest wives in the village? :rofl
 
They certaintly deserve the prettiest women with those =D

Well yeah, they have actually brought modern equipment now but at the beginning they had historic guns that was probably in a museum anywhere else in the world.

Anyone have any suggestions as to how to stop the pirating? I bet it'll steadily increase
 
Well, not the best looking somali men i've seen ... lol

Puntland not accepting bribes? I call bull****.
Inside Somalia, bribes is what keeps you alive.
I remember giving 100 dollar notes to the police to get out of breaking the laws in Puntland
 
Laila said:
Well, not the best looking somali men i've seen ... lol
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I know. They completely need better outfits. They look like they're running around in goodwill clothes. Their dinghys always look torn to hell in pictures too. Yet they are pulling in millions of millions of dollars and tons of cargo to boot. Still, they remain completely village oriented. You'd think they'd travel and go somewhere where there's a mall for superior digs. I guess they got to work their way up to hijacking planes. :mrgreen:
 
LOL
Supermarkets are unheard of but i suppose they have to deal with the most important issues first - Getting decent hijacking gear.

They do suck at looking like a pirates
 
Laila said:
LOL
Supermarkets are unheard of but i suppose they have to deal with the most important issues first - Getting decent hijacking gear.

They do suck at looking like a pirates
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You know decades from now Hollywood will do movies on the Somali pirates and you know they aren't gonna look like young men running around in torn boxer shorts and ill matched goodwill crap. I'd love to see what the best looking wives look like.

There's just no good clothes to be had in Somali I guess and the pirates are very careful about where on the seas they will go because if captured and arrested right off their coast they get handed back to Somalia or they go to Kenya. If they are caught somewhere other than their coast then they risk being brought to Europe or elsewhere for trial.

I think us women should start mailing hotter looking clothes to the "Pirates of Somalia."
 
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YouTube - Somalia Pirate interview
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Oh that's great. My favorite part comes at 0:42...

"Many of these pirates used to be fisherman who have now traded their nets for their weapons. The subsistence way of life for the high-life.

Pirates have the best houses...

The fanciest cars...

The prettiest women...

...say the people here."

:2party:
 
talloulou said:
I think us women should start mailing hotter looking clothes to the "Pirates of Somalia."
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Pmsl, i don't think we'll find a address to send clothes too ....
 
talloulou said:
Just put the stuff on a ship headed that way...The way things are going I'm sure they'll get it. :mrgreen:
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LOL
Dump it on a Arab oil ship, will be certain to reach them =D
 
Oh the horrible clothes might be a defensive tactic:

"If the U.N. gives approval to fight pirates on land, that will only lead to death of innocent Somalis. They cannot differentiate us from ordinary Somalis, we dress alike. Piracy will not stop unless we get a government."
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"I'm a successful Somali pirate" - Yassin's story
 
Ohhhh ...

Clever, rich and brave?
I may just have found my future husband :O
 
Laila said:
Ohhhh ...

Clever, rich and brave?
I may just have found my future husband :O
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I know, smart huh? I bet that's why their dinghys always look so shot too. I was thinking, WTF, can't they afford a dinghy that doesn't look like it's about to sink any minute?

But you know, they are fishing villages. I imagine looking like a fisherman on a rotted out dinghy is as much a tactic as the shoddy apparel. Fascinating. It really is.
 
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