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Pirates seize ship carrying tanks, ammo
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(CNN) -- A Ukrainian ship carrying tanks and ammunition has been seized by pirates off the coast of Kenya, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry told CNN.................. ................The Russian patrol ship Neustrashimy, which left Wednesday for the coast off Somalia, may help crack down on pirates, a source in the Russian Baltic Fleet headquarters told Interfax-AVN on Friday. And the Russian Navy's commander, Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky, told Interfax that Russia plans to send combat ships to the Somali coast to fight piracy. "We have such plans for the near future," he said. "However, Russian ships will not be involved in any international operations. They will do this job on their own." http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa...nks/index.html |
Pirates seize ship carrying tanks, ammo
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m... Hummmmmmmm (CNN) -- A Ukrainian ship carrying tanks and ammunition has been seized by pirates off the coast of Kenya, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry told CNN.................. ...............The Russian patrol ship Neustrashimy, which left Wednesday for the coast off Somalia, may help crack down on pirates, a source in the Russian Baltic Fleet headquarters told Interfax-AVN on Friday. And the Russian Navy's commander, Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky, told Interfax that Russia plans to send combat ships to the Somali coast to fight piracy. "We have such plans for the near future," he said. "However, Russian ships will not be involved in any international operations. They will do this job on their own." http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa...nks/index.html McCain has suspended his campaign to deal with this matter. Sorry. LOL -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
Pirates seize ship carrying tanks, ammo
On Sep 26, 5:56*pm, hpeer wrote:
...............The Russian patrol ship Neustrashimy, which left Wednesday for the coast off Somalia, may help crack down on pirates, a source in the Russian Baltic Fleet headquarters told Interfax-AVN on Friday. .... Trust those pinkos to interfere with the Free Market! Freedom loving, entrepreneurial Somalian fishermen have devised an innovative new financial instrument that converts a small investment in boats and RPGs into T-35 tanks and now the Regulators from Big Government are using Taxpayer Money to butt in. They're Socializing the Sea! Government isn't the solution, it's the problem! --Tom. |
Pirates seize ship carrying tanks, ammo
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Pirates seize ship carrying tanks, ammo
On Sep 27, 3:54*pm, hpeer wrote:
wrote: On Sep 26, 5:56 pm, hpeer wrote: ...............The Russian patrol ship Neustrashimy, which left Wednesday for the coast off Somalia, may help crack down on pirates, a source in the Russian Baltic Fleet headquarters told Interfax-AVN on Friday. ... Trust those pinkos to interfere with the Free Market! *Freedom loving, entrepreneurial Somalian fishermen have devised an innovative new financial instrument that converts a small investment in boats and RPGs into T-35 tanks and now the Regulators from Big Government are using Taxpayer Money to butt in. *They're Socializing the Sea! Government isn't the solution, it's the problem! --Tom. Yeah, but if they put their economy on the rocks will they ask for a BAILOUT? *(sorry) With those kinds of weapons, it will be more like a BLOWOUT. Capt. Bill |
Pirates seize ship carrying tanks, ammo
On Sep 27, 12:54*pm, hpeer wrote:
wrote: On Sep 26, 5:56 pm, hpeer wrote: ...............The Russian patrol ship Neustrashimy, which left Wednesday for the coast off Somalia, may help crack down on pirates, a source in the Russian Baltic Fleet headquarters told Interfax-AVN on Friday. ... Trust those pinkos to interfere with the Free Market! *Freedom loving, entrepreneurial Somalian fishermen have devised an innovative new financial instrument that converts a small investment in boats and RPGs into T-35 tanks and now the Regulators from Big Government are using Taxpayer Money to butt in. *They're Socializing the Sea! Government isn't the solution, it's the problem! --Tom. Yeah, but if they put their economy on the rocks will they ask for a BAILOUT? *(sorry) First they need to devise a method of selling off parts of the tanks (actually T-72's I notice) since the international language is French, let's call them tranches... Oh hell... More OT, the article in the NY Times is interesting http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/27/wo...irates.html?em. The report says the pirates are operating with virtual impunity from mother ships hundreds of miles off the coast. That seems to pretty much close the horn of Africa to cruisers. I guess Cape Town is going to be a really popular place. -- Tom. |
Pirates seize ship carrying tanks, ammo
On Sep 27, 2:17*pm, Gogarty wrote:
.... Did you notice that the pirates have a spokesman (who was not available for comment.) Yeah, I pictured an elegant, bespectacled man in a bespoke suit reminding some loved ones that there are only so many appendages that can be amputated from a soul before that person retreats to the ultimate spiritual form. I gather the asking tariff per is in six figures so just paying them with your FastTrak as you go by isn't really an option. --Tom. |
Pirates seize ship carrying tanks, ammo
us navy is shadowing the ship...ready to blow it
out of the water if the flakes even think about off loading the freight.... On Sep 27, 7:30*pm, " wrote: On Sep 27, 2:17*pm, Gogarty wrote: ... Did you notice that the pirates have a spokesman (who was not available for comment.) Yeah, I pictured an elegant, bespectacled man in a bespoke suit reminding some loved ones that there are only so many appendages that can be amputated from a soul before that person retreats to the ultimate spiritual form. I gather the asking tariff per is in six figures so just paying them with your FastTrak as you go by isn't really an option. --Tom. |
Pirates seize ship carrying tanks, ammo
ready to meet your maker?
-------news snip--------------- Nikolsky said via a satellite phone that a Russian sailor died Sunday due to hypertension. Other crew members were fine though, he said adding that he could see three ships about a mile away, including one carrying an American flag. On Sep 27, 8:33*pm, "~^ beancounter ~^" wrote: us navy is shadowing the ship...ready to blow it out of the water if the flakes even think about off loading the freight.... On Sep 27, 7:30*pm, " wrote: On Sep 27, 2:17*pm, Gogarty wrote: ... Did you notice that the pirates have a spokesman (who was not available for comment.) Yeah, I pictured an elegant, bespectacled man in a bespoke suit reminding some loved ones that there are only so many appendages that can be amputated from a soul before that person retreats to the ultimate spiritual form. I gather the asking tariff per is in six figures so just paying them with your FastTrak as you go by isn't really an option. --Tom.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
Pirates seize ship carrying tanks, ammo
On Sep 28, 9:14 am, "~^ beancounter ~^" wrote:
ready to meet your maker? -------news snip--------------- Nikolsky said via a satellite phone that a Russian sailor died Sunday due to hypertension. Other crew members were fine though, he said adding that he could see three ships about a mile away, including one carrying an American flag. On Sep 27, 8:33 pm, "~^ beancounter ~^" wrote: us navy is shadowing the ship...ready to blow it out of the water if the flakes even think about off loading the freight.... On Sep 27, 7:30 pm, " wrote: On Sep 27, 2:17 pm, Gogarty wrote: ... Did you notice that the pirates have a spokesman (who was not available for comment.) Yeah, I pictured an elegant, bespectacled man in a bespoke suit reminding some loved ones that there are only so many appendages that can be amputated from a soul before that person retreats to the ultimate spiritual form. I gather the asking tariff per is in six figures so just paying them with your FastTrak as you go by isn't really an option. --Tom.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - well if those fishermen have a brain among them those 72's will be stripped of the targeting and guns strong mounts included and be installed on the mother ships. depending on what kind of ammo they got (and i assume that with the military response they got some good stuff) those tin cans will stay well away. |
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