Somali Pirates

Its a rich somebody's ship, thats all that matters. Its worth a lot of money to somebody and they couldnt give a shit what nationality that person is. Sure as hell arent gonna be Somalian!

I know that but Robbie Brown was trying to justify this theft as some sort of payback against the British for the slave trade.

I know that but Robbie Brown didnt really say a great deal relevant to this specific situation, or indeed somalian piracy at all, so i wasnt gonna quote him. I was just on about the reasons behind it with regards to the ships owners

Yeah the Somali's are running round our streets like its the fucking wild west, gunned up to the max. They have imported their lack of respect for human life and love of violence into the country as well as their granmothers. Just ask that Leeds policewoman who got blasted to death in the next city down to us, Leeds only last year. They where robbing a travel agents the thick fucks.

Walking thru our city center the other day and theres fucking huge doormen working on nearly jewellyshop in the town!!! fucking crazy! why? cos the fucking immigrants have been sticking up jewllers like its the fucking 80's! there have been 3 in Newcaslte in the last 6 months alone. Madness

you're a repulsive man.

They have bagged 2 more ships since the tanker was taken. The Indian navy took one boat out though.



An Indian warship destroyed a pirate ship in the Gulf of Aden and gunmen from Somalia seized two more vessels despite a large international naval presence off their lawless country.

The pirates have taken a Thai fishing boat, a Greek bulk carrier and a Hong Kong-flagged ship heading to Iran since Saturday's spectacular capture of a Saudi supertanker carrying $100 million of oil, the biggest ship hijacked in history.

The White House said US president George W. Bush had been briefed and the United States was consulting other UN Security Council members on ways to combat the wave of piracy.

The supertanker Sirius Star was seized despite an existing effort to guard one of the world's busiest shipping arteries by naval ships from the United States, France, Russia and India.

Saudi Arabia said the ship's owners were in talks over a possible ransom. Iran said it was seeking contact with the Hong Kong ship, which it had chartered to import grain.

The explosion of piracy off Somalia this year has driven up insurance costs, made some shipping companies divert around South Africa and prompted an unprecedented military response from NATO, the European Union and others.

"The pirates are sending out a message to the world that 'we can do what we want, we can think the unthinkable, do the unexpected'," Andrew Mwangura, coordinator of the East African Seafarers' Assistance Programme, said in Mombasa.

India's navy said one of its warships destroyed a pirate ship in the Gulf of Aden in a brief battle late on Tuesday.

"Fire broke out on the vessel and explosions were heard, possibly due to exploding ammunition that was stored on the vessel," the navy said, adding that two speedboats sped away. The International Maritime Bureau said pirates from Somalia had hijacked a Thai fishing boat with 16 crew. That followed the capture of the Hong Kong-flagged ship carrying grain to Iran.

Mr Mwangura's group said a Greek bulk carrier had also been seized, but an official at Greece's Merchant Marine Ministry said in Athens no such incident had been recorded.

The sharp increase in attacks this year off Somalia has been fuelled by a growing Islamist insurgency onshore and the lure of multi-million-dollar ransoms.

Somali prime minister Nur Hassan Hussein said naval patrols would not stop piracy and appealed for more help to tackle criminal networks with links beyond his country.

Russian ambassador to Nato Dmitry Rogozin said Nato, the European Union and others should launch land operations against bases of Somali pirates in coordination with Russia.

Analysts say paying ransoms exacerbates piracy, but like most victims the owners of the Sirius Star have begun talks.

"We do not like to negotiate with either terrorists or hijackers. But the owners of the tanker, they are the final arbiters of what happens here," Saudi Arabia's foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said today.

The Sirius Star was seized 450 nautical miles southeast of Mombasa, far beyond the gangs' usual area of operations. It is believed to be now anchored near Eyl, a former Somali fishing village that has become a well-defended pirate base.

The Sirius was carrying as much as two million barrels of oil, more than a quarter of Saudi Arabia's daily exports, and had been heading for the United States via the Cape of Good Hope.

The UN Security Council resolution that authorizes counterpiracy measures will expire on December 2nd, according to US officials who say they are pressing for an extension.

Some shipping firms are diverting their fleets via the Cape, experts say. There is little evidence yet big oil tanker firms carrying most of the world's crude are avoiding the Suez Canal.

Somali gunmen are believed to be holding about a dozen ships and more than 200 hostages in the Eyl area. One Ukrainian vessel is loaded with 33 tanks and other weapons.

Chinese state media said today a Hong Kong cargo ship taken in September had been freed and all 25 crew were safe.

Experts say pessimism over the prospects of any peace process in Somalia, memories of disastrous past interventions, and the need to put out fires elsewhere - from Afghanistan to Congo -have snuffed out the will to take further action.

The pirates are armed with grenades, heavy machineguns and rocket-launchers, and foreign navies have usually steered clear of direct confrontation once ships have been hijacked, for fear of putting hostages at risk. In most cases, the owners of hijacked ships are trying to negotiate ransoms.

Was on the train home the other month and a group of pissed Aussie lads decided to give shit to this Sudanese guy - "Go back to Africa, fuck Blood Diamond" and the usual shit. Then a Samoan (immigrant, Aussie's always slag them off but never to their face as they will get fucked up) comes on, hears the bullshit, and threatens to fuck the Aussies up. They soon shut up like little girls. Selective racism is the funniest part of racism.

of course we have moved on since then !!.....have the African people ??


it`s a sad history the slave trade.

Yes they are no longer slaves they are pirates that is a upgrade.

fuck me, this board really needs to shut down...pathetic stuff.

Thats my last point on that, you seem like a total cock muncher.

an upgrade ? , there trying to survive... people from this country used them as slaves years ago, now there taking from us...... a civil country like ours now is different to living in parts of Africa





cheers

Some of you really need to read more than the Daily Mail, you might learn something. Ignorant bigots.

black, lesbian, immigrant single mother ?

What are they taking from us? 2 blokes from Britain? What about the 19 crew members from the Philippines? The 2 Poles & the others.

Trying to survive!!! With a demand for $25 million for the ship, cargo & more importantly the crew!!!! Aye we would all like to survive with that sort of wonga.

You can dress this crime up all you want it will still be a crime by these people who are thieves.

Stereotypical knuckle-dragger?

fuck off, im gorgeous.

i like that one!