Russia and pirates - ironic justice?

[CCIP]

I thought Russia was really playing weak and feeble when they let the pirates from last week's successful tanker-freeing operation go.

But now I read this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8675978.stm

They were released in an inflatable boat without navigational equipment.
[...]
"It seems that they all died," the unnamed source was quoted as saying by Russia's Interfax news agency.

As inhumane as it may sound, my first thought is that this is exactly what they deserved in the first place. Certainly can't call this an unjust fate!

[Weiss Pinguin]

"It seems that they all died," the unnamed source was quoted as saying by Russia's Interfax news agency.
Maybe I'm cruel and heartless, but am I the only one who chuckled at this?

And yes, the circumstances over there are horrible, but piracy is still a crime.

[SteamWake]

Good god can you imagine if the US had done this !

[Lord_magerius]

Good god can you imagine if the US had done this !

I can just see the headlines on Fox News now "President Obama kills africans" :O:

[SteamWake]

Hey maybe it would be a good tactic to just go ahead and pay the ransoms.


Intense fighting erupted in the Harardhere town of Somalia as some pirates began fighting over the ransom that was delivered to them resulting in the death of four Somali pirates,


http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/10459

[Snestorm]

Justice is served.

[Skybird]

A pirate's life, a pirate's death.

[GoldenRivet]

Maybe I'm cruel and heartless, but am I the only one who chuckled at this?

And yes, the circumstances over there are horrible, but piracy is still a crime.


chuckled?

I laughed my ass off

i only wish i could have seen how happy they were to be set free... and then seen the look on their faces when they realized "Wait... uhhhh"

[TLAM Strike]

"It seems that they all died," the unnamed source was quoted as saying by Russia's Interfax news agency.Also according to an unnamed source in the Russian Navy a North Korean midget sub attacked that Oil Rig in the gulf of Mexico (http://www.eutimes.net/2010/05/us-orders-blackout-over-north-korean-torpedoing-of-gulf-of-mexico-oil-rig/)and the US caused the Earth Quake in Haiti (http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116834&sectionid=351020104).

I wouldn't be publishing what some drunk Russian officer said in the bar outside of Vidyaevo if I was any news outlet. :nope:

[SteamWake]

Also according to an unnamed source in the Russian Navy a North Korean midget sub attacked that Oil Rig in the gulf of Mexico (http://www.eutimes.net/2010/05/us-orders-blackout-over-north-korean-torpedoing-of-gulf-of-mexico-oil-rig/)and the US caused the Earth Quake in Haiti (http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116834&sectionid=351020104).

I wouldn't be publishing what some drunk Russian officer said in the bar outside of Vidyaevo if I was any news outlet. :nope:

and here I was lead to believe it was scantily clad women.

[Jimbuna]

I wonder if the Russians would have followed the same course of action had it been a ship from a country other than their own that had been liberated? :hmmm:

On the fate of the pirates I admit to having an open mind....neither for or against the outcome.

[Turbografx]

I'm only a little disappointed that they weren't sprayed with small-arms after being put into the raft. Just to make sure, ya know.

[nikimcbee]

Well, look at the bright side, atleast the Russian are doing something about ending global hunger for sharks.

[nikimcbee]

Good god can you imagine if the US had done this !

Too busy play basketball/golf. sry


Plus, our Navy's rules of engagement are so detailed, by the time the captain finished going through the flow chart, the pirates would be long gone.:arrgh!:

[CaptainHaplo]

I'ma thinkin this is a rather economical solution to the piracy issue. Only thing is - why use a dinghy? I say give em some cute little ducky floaties, toss em in the water and point toward land....

Save the cost of feeding em, transporting them and holding a court hearing.

[Kazuaki Shimazaki II]

I thought Russia was really playing weak and feeble when they let the pirates from last week's successful tanker-freeing operation go.

But now I read this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8675978.stm

As inhumane as it may sound, my first thought is that this is exactly what they deserved in the first place. Certainly can't call this an unjust fate!

You never know whether reports of events far away are true, but it does sound like a nice compromise between the law, the need to at least pretend to be humanitarian (there WILL be certain parties, both in Russia and the West, who would squawk if they just gunned down the pirates or gave them rubber floaties), and the need to give some justice to the pirates.

[SteamWake]

Too busy play basketball/golf. sry


Plus, our Navy's rules of engagement are so detailed, by the time the captain finished going through the flow chart, the pirates would be long gone.:arrgh!:

God lets hope not.. surely CIc is a little more compentent than that.

[mookiemookie]

...and nothing of value was lost.

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

[OneToughHerring]

I'm wondering why they didn't do the same thing to the pirates that took over the Arctic Sea - vessel a while back. :hmmm:

[CCIP]

I'm wondering why they didn't do the same thing to the pirates that took over the Arctic Sea - vessel a while back. :hmmm:

Well now, if we're to believe some of the conspiracy stuff surrounding that (and I personally would not discount it) - I think they wouldn't want to take the risk of setting afloat people who could prove Russia was up to something there. They could, you know, accidentally survive instead of being placed under constant supervision.

[OneToughHerring]

Well now, if we're to believe some of the conspiracy stuff surrounding that (and I personally would not discount it) - I think they wouldn't want to take the risk of setting afloat people who could prove Russia was up to something there. They could, you know, accidentally survive instead of being placed under constant supervision.

Yea but were these Somalis bodies even discovered? So the way they died is not clear. The Arctic Sea pirates could've been given a leaky boat, would make it pretty sure that none survived.

[Schroeder]

Reported.:salute:

[Jimbuna]

Reported.:salute:

But I never had time to tell them my shoe size :o

:DL

[mookiemookie]

But I never had time to tell them my shoe size :o

:DL

You know what they say about a man with big feet....


....he wears big shoes!

[Wolfehunter]

I say make them walk the plank and let the sharks sort the survivors out.. :arrgh!:

[Schroeder]

But I never had time to tell them my shoe size :o

You are to slow for ze internetz GeStaPo.:O:

[Jimbuna]

Jawohl :salute: