Navy SEALs 3; pirates 0

[unixronin]

Captain Phillips is coming home.  The pirates who attacked his ship ... not so much.

MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) -- An American ship captain was freed unharmed Sunday in a swift firefight that killed three of the four Somali pirates who had been holding him for days in a lifeboat off the coast of Africa, the ship’s owner said.

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“The negotiations between the elders and American officials have broken down.  The reason is American officials wanted to arrest the pirates in Puntland and elders refused the arrest of the pirates,” said the commissioner, Abdi Aziz Aw Yusuf.  He said he organized initial contacts between the elders and the Americans.

Two other Somalis, one involved in the negotiations and another in contact with the pirates, also said the talks collapsed because of the U.S. insistence that the pirates be arrested and brought to justice.

We get that you didn’t want your pirates arrested.  OK, we didn’t arrest them.  Let us know how “dead” is working out for you instead.

Comments

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

I can certainly identify with that attitude. There is a part of me that wishes it were different. Either way, our goals are identical; Stop the current pirates, and make sure new pirates do not take their place. The world economy can no longer afford the tax they place upon transportation of goods.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Either way, our goals are identical; Stop the current pirates, and make sure new pirates do not take their place.

Precisely.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

The root problem, however, is that piracy looks like a good career choice in that neighborhood. Not too many options for employment, and most of them worse . . .