Saturday Bolitics: 5 Somali Pirates Die With Ransom of $3 Milli
Posted by Bossip Staff
The Somali Pirates are still tripping. Five pirates just drowned with their with their half of a of $3 milli ransom board, and the U.S. Navy is implementing stricter laws by becoming more involved:
MOGADISHU, Somalia — 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 port town resident said Saturday. Pirate Daud Nure says 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. He said five people died and three people reached shore after swimming for several hours. Daud Nure was not part of the pirate operation but knew those involved. Jamal Abdulle, a resident of the Somali coastal town of Haradhere, close to where the ship was anchored also confirmed that the boat sank and that the eight’s portion of the ransom money that had been shared between dozens of pirates was lost. U.S. Navy photos showed a parachute, carrying what they described as “an apparent payment,” floating toward the tanker. The Sirius Star and its 25-member crew had been held since Nov. 15. Its cargo of crude oil was valued at US$100 million at the time. The capture was seen as a dramatic demonstration of the pirates’ ability to strike high value targets hundreds of miles offshore. On the same day the Saudi ship was freed, pirates released a captured Iranian-chartered cargo ship, Iran’s state television reported Saturday. It said the ship Daylight was carrying 36 tons of wheat when it was attacked in the Gulf of Aden Nov. 18 and seized by pirates. All 25 crew are in good health and the vessel is sailing toward Iran, the TV report said. The U.S. Navy announced this week it will head a new anti-piracy taskforce after more than 100 ships were attacked last year. NATO and the European Union already have warships patrolling the Gulf of Aden and have intervened to prevent several ships from being captured. More than a dozen ships with about 300 crew members are still being held by pirates off the coast of Somalia, including the weapons-laden Ukrainian cargo ship MV Faina, which was seized in September. The multimillion dollar ransoms are one of the few ways to earn a living in the impoverished, war-ravaged country. Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991 and nearly half of its population depends on aid.
Once the U.S. becomes fully involved, expect to see more pirates mysteriously drowning.
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Im all for this SHYT. We need to get a taste in America of the lawlessness that’s going on everywhere…and we will!
Come on now!!! i find that highly unlikely they drowned..
Also I find it highly unlikely the 3 million went down with them.
More probable is that when then were leaving they were killed and the money was taken… you think they just gonna let 3 million sink to the bottom of the ocean??
Shyt!!!!
For what *****uming is worth, the money was probably fake and they got deliberately capseized if not bombed.
The americans dont have to be blamed for this, it could as well been the Saudis. You think Arabs like to get fu(ked over by blacks.
how tactless bossip. smh
smh @ bossip comment.
Well they are living a reckless life so what do they expect?
The pirate scene isn’t as dead as you might think. Jos Van Dyke is pretty close to a U.S. territory (St. Thomas and others.)
And another thing, the Gulf of Aden as well as the Straight of Hormuz has been out of control since people started sailing in the first place; Just in case you didn’t think that Arabs had it in them.
All nautical people know those places are sail at your own risk. But I guess in order to know about such things you’d have to get out there.
I hope they all die ! Commit a crime do the time !!
@BE – You should check out the article in the nytimes about the somali “pirates” , i think read up on it on huffington post as well. I feel more sympathetic for some of these cats as not all of them are what they make them out to be. Since Somalia’s government and any sense of order has been M.I.A since ‘91 , there has been apparently rampant dumping of toxic waster in their waters which has led to alot sickness and deformities among the population. As well alot of these same EU countries that are dumping are taking alot of the valuable seafood resources out of their waters that the locals depend on for food , lol and with no government or any form representation pretty much the people are powerless. There was a good quote in that article from a pirate from the 1600’s “”What I did was to keep me from perishing. I was forced to go a-pirating to live.”Granted that some of these fools are definitely in it for the money and status – i think we are being to lied to some extent but haha whats new
I’m surprised it’s taken this long for the countries to acknowledge the problem and try to do something about it.
There is someone up there with a sense of humour!!
WELL SOMEWHERE IN SOMALIA ONE PIRATE IS LIVING IT UP WITH HIS CUT.
THATS ALL THAT MATTTERS.
THEYRE JUST TRYING TO EAT.
TOP 20 YOU dirty african piratez!!!!!
@txhustla15
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at last…someone with brains.i’m in england now but i lived in kenya for 2 years n what you say is true. n its the same scenario with nigeria n the whole “shell oil” debacle.true say some are in it for the financial gains,..others however may have no other option.(it aint like the “government gon give them jobs or sumtin).
These scrawny *****s are the last people I’d expect to be scared of.
who do these guys think they are?
@txhusla – thanks for the information. I’ll look into this, maybe I am making an uninformed statement.
What is there to discuss here BOSSIP? Are you favoring the side of the pirates? Of course,what Somalia has become lends itself to piracy.Still that’s no excuse to do it.How about coming together & building a NATION-such that if other nations are using your s*****s as a dumping ground-you have a sense of national unity to do something to stop it.Of course wherever there is a large Muslim population-the concept of national unity gets flushed down the toilet.I’m sure that in the “victim mindset” of the BOSSIP staff & many of it’s readers-there’s a thought pattern that goes something like this:
1)If America does’nt get involved we’re cold & uncaring.
2) If America does get involved it’s meddling…evil…& self serving.
Can’t win either way.
How is it these idiots showed the moxie to ‘jack a tanker…but died taking the loot? For that matter what would make them think that what was being delivered to them was actually money?
FIVE die with their HALF!!!??? C’mon Bossip! Do the MATH!!
@ Txhustla….
I read the huffington post article. I have empathy as well. The media will only report from their perspective. Especially when they team up with other dominant nations against Africa which has been victimized for centuries.
The Somalians are given no respect with regard to the coastline that god granted them to prosper from.
The government situation is sad. Those people have literally been left to die. I suppose if it were rich in diamonds or prospective oil digging possibilities there would be a government before you could blink an eye.
The more fiscally strong nations are the pirates. Not the Somalis. Their actions are driven by protest for their country.
Not.my.pirates! I’m a supporter, sheeit we’d all be pirating if we needed to eat. I love how the mainstream media is on top of this now when Somalia hasn’t had a government since 1991 and folks BEEN starving….
Of course, they’ll bust these dudes eventually so the people can go right on back to dying….
Actually, they are not pirates! They are not criminals. It’s their country water. Just like you pay to transport things in America’s waters. They have a right to get paid for other people to enter, and transport thru their waters.
Wow! Do you people not know this?
I mean, who is shipping things in American’s docks without paying taxes? Ever heard of “Longs*****men?”
Who do you think pays their salaries.
Americans or Westerners always try to make people out to be criminals; yet they are the biggest thieves and criminals.
Man, leave those people alone in their own country.
Leave it to dumb-*****, emotionally-gullible, believe-everything-the-media-says, white-jesus-worshipping, incompetent fools. Those Somali’s are protecting their country from toxic waste dumping. It’s interesting how white folks put a slant on reporting to justify their warmongering against a small African country – and stupid *****s co-sign it without *****essing the facts.
@Fatima – I would guesstimate that more than half of the bloggers on this site don’t know their ***** from a hole in the ground. I applaud you for being knowledgeable and attuned to world affairs. You are a rare breed.
F’em