ORIGINAL GANGSTAS OF THE SEA Pirates Grip World Attention!
Day three (or four, depending on which time zone you are in) of the tense international pirate standoff off Somalia is bananas! They have been sitting on a hijacked ship of Ukrainian tanks bound for either Kenya or Sudan (could someone clear up whose arms are being traded for whose hostages, please?) for days now, while several U.S. warships have them boxed in on the coast. Now: "A U.S. defense official says three pirates are believed to have been killed in a gunfight among themselves on the ship they hijacked off Somalia 's coast." But the pirates say this is an anti-pirate lie! The pirate spokesman says everything is fine . The Somali pirates are local heroes who cleaned up dirty coastal waters and who have become perhaps a little bit greedy!
They very well may get their $20-million ransom.
"We only want money, so we can protect ourselves from hunger."
When asked why the pirates needed $20 million to protect themselves from hunger, Mr. Sugule laughed over the phone and said: "Because we have a lot of men."
Or you know they could just all get shot and end up dead. But they have the tanks and the hostages, plus they are pirates, so they always win.
By Choire Sicha 09/30/08 10:20 |
