Feared Somali pirate retiring from pirate businessOkay folks ...
This has to be the CRAZIEST story on Earth... What the hell is wrong with law enforcement these days?
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Credit: A masked Somali pirate stands near a Taiwanese fishing vessel. (AP/Farah Abdi Warsameh)QuoteThe pirating business apparently isn't what it used to be. In fact, one dreaded Somali pirate has decided to put an end to his kidnappings and ransacking.
At a press conference—possibly the first to be held by a retiring pirate—Mohamed Abdi Hassan, known as "Afweyne" or "big mouth," told reporters on Wednesday that after eight successful years in the business, he's through.
"After being in piracy for eight years, I have decided to renounce and quit, and from today on I will not be involved in this gang activity," Hassan said, speaking in Adado, a central Somalia town known as a pirate haven.
Feared Somali pirate retiring from pirate business (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/feared-somali-pirate-retiring-pirate-business-181529222.html)Wow just wow... The worst pirate on the seas in modern times calls a press conference to announce his retirement and no one arrests him?
Really?
Guess what folkes... DOOMSDAY HAPPENED... just not like we thought
The Russians don't pussyfoot around with these scum, they just blow them out of the water on sight, maybe that might be a reason for retirement early.
LOL I call THAT 'cut and run' not 'retirement'
QuoteThe king-pin pirate was described by the United Nations as "one of the most notorious and influential leaders." The New York Times described his arrival on the scene as bringing a "new sophistication" to the business, noting, "Afweyne raised venture capital for his pirate operations as if he were launching a Wall Street I.P.O."
SOUCRE:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/feared-somali-pirate-retiring-pirate-business-181529222.html
Tracking Somali Pirates to Their LairQuoteOn April 8, 2009, the Maersk Alabama, a 17,000-ton United States cargo vessel, was hijacked by four Somali pirates several hundred miles east of Mogadishu. Bobbing in a lifeboat with the skipper, 53-year-old Richard Phillips, they began negotiating with the ship's owners via cellphone for a multimillion-dollar ransom. For five days, the pirates and their hostage drifted in the Indian Ocean, shadowed by the U.S.S. Bainbridge, a destroyer that arrived at the scene not long after the hijacking. At dusk on April 12, Navy snipers killed three of the Somalis, and Phillips was rescued unharmed. The surviving pirate was seized and taken to the United States, where he pleaded guilty in a Manhattan courtroom to a host of charges and was sentenced to 33 years and nine months in a federal prison.
SOURCE:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/books/review/the-pirates-of-somalia-by-jay-bahadur-book-review.html?pagewanted=all&_r=2&
Seems US Navy get in on the Blast them outta water thing too :D
Seems the Germans made a Diamonds for Security deal with Somalia just recently.
Soon ze Luftwaffe will blow zem out of ze water ;D