Pirates have shootout over oil tanker release

Pirates have shootout over oil tanker release

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NAIROBI, Kenya — A shootout between rival Somali pirate gangs over their biggest ransom ever threatened to turn an oil supertanker and the 28 hostages aboard into a massive fireball until bandits begged the anti-piracy force for help, a negotiator said Monday.

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For some reason, I am finding this article to be very amusing. Pirates calling for help because they are attacked by other pirates? Too funny.

Karma is a wicked thing.

This pirate thing has gotten way out of control. Easy money to be made for people willing to do very bad things. Part of me thinks they should carpet bomb the entire area, but that would hurt too many innocents.

Crazy stuff.

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I don't see why they don't catch the pirate's ships a few hundred miles from shore and just send them to the bottom. No witnesses. The problem would soon be solved for good.

Man, I remember back in the day pirates had peg legs and cutlasses. Now they be packin' heat.