And today comes word of divine justice at work: six pirates drowned on their way home, and their share of the booty — $300,000 — went to the bottom with them.
According to Al Jazeera:
Somali pirates drown with ransom- - - - - - - - -
Six members of a group of Somali pirates who hijacked and later released a Saudi-owned oil tanker are reported to have drowned along with their share of a $3m ransom.
The pirates were among eight men whose boat overturned off the coast of Kenya in a storm as they left the Sirius Star following a two-month standoff that ended on Friday, a pirate and a relative of one of the dead men said.
“Six of our boys perished at the sea while coming from the released Saudi supertanker,” Mohamed Said told the AFP news agency.
“The small boat that was carrying those killed and eight who survived was overloaded and at high speed, we have been told by the survivors.
“They were afraid of a chase from outsiders [foreign naval forces] who invaded Somalia waters,” he said.
The group’s $300,000 share of the ransom was also lost, he said.
Three pirates reached shore after swimming for several hours, pirate Daud Nure said on Saturday.
“There has been human and monetary loss but what makes us feel sad is that we don’t still have the dead bodies of our relatives. Four are still missing and one washed up on the shore,” Abukar Haji, the uncle of one of the dead men, said.
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The Sirius Star, owned by the shipping arm of oil giant Aramco, was carrying crude oil valued at $100m when it was hijacked on November 15.
Saudi Arabian oil minister Ali Naimi said on Saturday that the crew was safe and returning to the Gulf coast city of Dammam.
Presumably the motto of the Somali pirates (just as for all Muslims) is “inshallah”, “if Allah wills it.”
So what message is being delivered here — when Allah causes six honest hard-working pirates to sleep with the fishes?
Previous posts about the Somali pirates:
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Damn. $2.7 million still in the hands of the criminals.
"Six of our boys perished at the sea while coming from the released Saudi supertanker," Mohamed Said told the AFP news agency.
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"There has been human and monetary loss but what makes us feel sad is that we don't still have the dead bodies of our relatives."
So, call me dense, but after a year and a half of reading GoV, Jihad Watch, etc., I am still struck dumb, or at least amazed, by the utter business-as-usual approach of muslims to the most vicious criminal enterprises.
The quoted statement of Mr. Said, above, most reminds me of one of those press announcements of the British Admiralty during WWII. "At 0300 this morning, six of our brave lads failed to return from a highly dangerous mission against NAZI targets in the North Atlantic. Their grateful nation mourns its loss."
We really are dealing with freaking savages here. I know it is explained by the Islamo-supremacism of the ideology of Mohammed, but there exists such a complete disconnect between the reality I live in, compared to theirs, I cannot seem to adapt to being perceived as target-dhimmi-victim opportunity.
So there were 14 savages, six muslims of them "drowned" (with only 50.000 each in the turban, Mohammed "says"), three reach shore ($1m each), Mohammed "states" (=$3m).
In the old days of the Barbary Pirates this would not happen: "As Jefferson wrote to Adams in a July 11, 1786, letter, "I acknowlege I very early thought it would be best to effect a peace thro' the medium of war."
Baron;
Heh-heh-heh.
We were all quite broken up about it here on MY ship, I can tell ya.
It seems that along with the demand for millions of dollars of ransom money, perhaps future scumbags should request a few PFD's...
(Personal Flotation Devices,"lifejackets" to you "farmers").
Man, that Karma...she's a bee-yotch, huh, lads?
Well, since the ship and money belonged to the Saudis, keepers of Islam's holiest places, perhaps Allah was at least conflicted, and split the difference?
The Somali pirates broke Islam's version of the Golden Rule - thou shalt confine your stealing, raping, killing etc. to NON-Muslims.
I had the same reaction, too, Top Kafir.
Top Kafir:
""There has been human and monetary loss but what makes us feel sad is that we don't still have the dead bodies of our relatives.""
Hey-sharks gotta eat, too! Hallal and tartare...yummy!
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