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gaddy Inner circle Agent of Chaos 3526 Posts |
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Cliffg37 Inner circle Long Beach, CA 2491 Posts |
I am not going to answer what they might do with it, because most of my ideas are based in terrorist action and I hope it doesn't happen. Hopefully they just hold the ship for ransom and get some cash for it.
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Lyndel Inner circle wrote the theme to the TV show COPS! 1623 Posts |
Turn it into a passenger cruise ship called "Pirates Of The Caribbean II"
(Actually relocating the operation to the Caribbean would be optional of course...) Lyndel |
balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
It think it doesn't take much to hijack a large cargo ship or oil tanker, except a fast small boat, a few capable bodies, and a grenade launcher.
As the story said, in most of the recent pirate incidents "the countries by and large have been paying the ransom that the pirates have asked". http://www.hindu.com/2008/11/17/stories/2008111755331100.htm Statistics provided by the Piracy Reporting Centre (PRC) of the Kuala Lumpur-based International Maritime Bureau (IMB) show that the number of sea piracy incidents this year has crossed 200. The Somali waters in the Gulf of Aden, from where the Indian Navy’s INS Tabar repelled an attempt to hijack an Indian merchant ship, remain the hotspot of such attacks. Other piracy hotspots are the waters off Nigeria and Indonesia. Details provided by the PRC show that today’s pirates are cold-blooded killers using rocket launchers, AK-47s, global positioning devices and night-vision goggles. ... Collapse of law and order in Somalia and political unrest are cited to be the prime causes for the escalation of piracy along the waters off these countries. During this year, 23 vessels were fired upon, 31 vessels hijacked, 581 crew members taken hostage, nine killed and seven missing. In the Somalia area alone, 38 ships and 250 crew members are still in the hands of the pirates. This includes a Ukrainian ship with weaponry. In the waters off Nigeria, 24 pirate incidents were reported between July and September this year. But IMB studies show that a good number of piracy incidents in this area remain unreported.
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daffydoug Eternal Order Look mom! I've got 14077 Posts |
"Used ropes and ladders to climb the hull"
Man, these knuckleheads have a lot of kahunas. Not exactly my idea of a great time.
The difficult must become easy, the easy beautiful and the beautiful magical.
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kregg Inner circle 1950 Posts |
What? Not the "T" word: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/wo......0546.ece
POOF!
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kregg Inner circle 1950 Posts |
Good News! Now we can classify terrorism (that's "freedom fighter" for apologists) as a hate crime: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=......rticle=1
POOF!
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
More here about how the pirates took on the tanker.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnew......ker.html
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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kregg Inner circle 1950 Posts |
Apparently, pirates have captured 17 ships.
The Indian navy showed us how it's done: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7736885.stm
POOF!
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
Pirate life ... Somali pirates transform villages into boomtowns ...
"Somalia's increasingly brazen pirates are building sprawling stone houses, cruising in luxury cars, marrying beautiful women — even hiring caterers to prepare Western-style food for their hostages ... towns that once were eroded by years of poverty and chaos are now bustling with restaurants, Land Cruisers and Internet Cafés. Residents also use their gains to buy generators — allowing full days of electricity, once an unimaginable luxury in Somalia." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081119/ap_o......boomtown
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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kcg5 Inner circle who wants four fried chickens and a coke 1868 Posts |
The navy said its the largest boat ever highjacked. I wouldnt be surprised if certain members of the navy are "called" on to handle the situation.
Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!!!!!
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Rupert Bair Inner circle ? 2179 Posts |
Send Jack Bauer.
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nums Veteran user I have a life, or I would have more than 366 Posts |
It should be handled with a deadly assault by the tankers countries military with all of the hi-jackers ending up dead. I am not joking but if the end result of the hi-jacking for the hi-jackers is death, what incentive for future hi-jackings do they have. IMHO if you pay them off that sends a message for future hi-jackings.
It is also how I would have handled the Iraninan hostage situation. Swift decisive action. NUMS |
gaddy Inner circle Agent of Chaos 3526 Posts |
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On 2008-11-19 14:48, kcg5 wrote: which Navy? The Saudi Arabian Navy? Ha ha! Their Navy is a joke!
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
A pirate was interviewed on CBC morning radio today. The listen to part 1 link is midway down the page:
http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2008/200811/20081121.html "Earlier this week, a giant Saudi oil tanker called the Sirius Star dropped anchor in the Indian Ocean ... a little more than 800 kilometres off the coast of Somalia. Those are dangerous waters, rife with piracy. But the crew figured they were safe since no one had ever struck that far out at sea. They were wrong. And now the Sirius Star, along with its 25 crew members and the two million barrels of crude oil it was carrying are being held off the coast of a small Somali fishing village -- and well-defended pirate base called Eyl. There have been three more hijackings since then. And more than a third of all the pirate attacks in the world now take place off the coast of Somalia. Muse, as he calls himself, is a Somali fisherman who says he hijacks ships traveling off the coast of Somalia. He says he's not a pirate, he's defending his country. We contacted him with the help of freelance journalist Abdul Rahman Warssameh in Mogadishu. And because of the quality of the phone line, The Current's Kennedy Jawoko helped out with a voice-over."
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Doug Higley 1942 - 2022 7152 Posts |
Targeting...restaurants, Land rovers and internet Cafés...not to mention beautiful women...
5-4-3-2....launch. move on.
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Tom Bartlett Special user Our southern border could use 763 Posts |
Just put up a few million dollars reward money and some ex-Navy SEALS will have the tanker is back in business in a week.
Our friends don't have to agree with me about everything and some that I hold very dear don't have to agree about anything, except where we are going to meet them for dinner.
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Doug Higley 1942 - 2022 7152 Posts |
Dibs on the Narration!
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
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On 2008-11-17 15:08, gaddy wrote: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090110/D95KBNE80.html MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Five of the Somali pirates who released a hijacked oil-laden Saudi supertanker drowned with their share of a reported $3 million ransom after their small boat capsized, a pirate and a relative of one of the dead men said Saturday. Pirate Daud Nure said the boat with eight people on board overturned in a storm after dozens of pirates left the Sirius Star following a two-month standoff in the Gulf of Aden that ended Friday.
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