Somali Pirates

[Ghoulish Delight]

Not much detail, and seemingly not as dramatic a fail, but make that 0-for-2 on US ships.

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[flippyshark]

I'm looking forward to the Pirates of the Somali Coast attraction redo.

[Kevy Baby]

And now the excuses start:

Teenage pirate was ‘brainwashed,’ mom says
Family saved $6 each month to pay for school fees in impoverished Somalia
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[BarTopDancer]

Top 5 Blunders of Somali Pirates.

NATO has some good PR people:

On March 30, pirates apparently mistook a German NATO supply ship, the FGS Spessart, for a merchant ship when they targeted it in the Gulf of Aden, between Somalia and Yemen. “Poor judgment by the pirates turned out to be a real opportunity for seven nations representing three task forces to work together and strike a momentous blow for maritime safety and security,” said a NATO spokesman.

And of course, the one that prompted this thread:

1. On April 8, pirates seized the US-flagged 17,000-ton Maersk Alabama, which was carrying food aid from USAID and other agencies to help malnourished people in Uganda and Somalia. The pirates didn’t last long. In a rescue worthy of a Hollywood script, US Navy SEAL snipers killed three pirates and freed the American sea captain who had offered himself as a hostage to save his crew.