Argh! Pirates in Somalia have hijacked a 100 million dollar Saudi oil tanker

[sasquatch]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20081118/wl_ynews/ynews_wl155
Pirates in Somalia are at it again. Over the weekend they claimed their biggest prize to date: a Saudi oil tanker the size of three football fields, laden with $100 million in crude oil.

Before you summon romantic images of rum-soaked swashbucklers gallivanting "Pirates of the Caribbean"-style, consider this: The sophistication of the most recent attack has the attention of U.S. Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

On Monday Mullen said he's "stunned" at the pirates' ability to hijack a vessel in the open ocean so far from the coast (though most attacks occur closer to the Gulf of Aden, this one took place 450 miles off the coast of Kenya).

" very well armed. Tactically, they are very good," Mullen said.

Indeed, the seizure of the Saudi tanker is the latest in a series of high-stakes incidents in recent months. Piracy has long plagued the waters off the Horn of Africa, but attacks this year have spiked 75 percent, according to this video from AP.

[charlie and algernon]

1. didn't they also get a ship full of tanks earlier?

Somalia planning a massive armoured blitzkreig of it's neighbors?

[machI]

4. Ya recon' they might need the tanks to put the oil in?

:shrug:

:rofl:

[charlie and algernon]

6. I reckon they might need the oil to run the tanks

[machI]

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[FKA MNChimpH8R]

2. This increase in piracy must foreshadow a slowdown in global warming

It is well known in the canon law of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster that there is a definite correlation between the shrinking number of pirates and global warming.

rAmen!

[HEyHEY]

3. Stoopid, stoopid pirates.... you don't fuck with the oil.

Now they'll all be napalmed.... as will anyone they are suspected of knowing.

[krispos42]

5. And they wait six months it's worth 200 million

God-damn futures commodities traders. The soul-sucking spawn of Ken Lay and Phil Gramm... and man, that's a visual NOBODY wants at 6am! Married by Milton Friedeman, with Reagan as the midwife.















Oh, you mean real pirates. On the high seas and shit.




Nevermind.

[regnaD kciN]

7. They're plannin' on sellin' the booty...

...to Arrrrrrrghco Petroleum. :evilgrin: