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| Pirates demand $25m for oil tanker |
| 2008-11-20 |
| SOMALI pirates who hijacked Saudi oil super-tanker Sirius Star are demanding $US25 million ($A39.25 million) in ransom, Agence France-Presse reported. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #24 Looks like the Saudi's aren't going to make any profit off that tankerfull. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-11-20 21:05 |
| #23 ed---it ain't US oil until the US firm takes delivery at the dock. Unless there is this prepay clause inserted in there somewhere. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2008-11-20 19:29 |
| #22 If you are interested in escape to the South Seas and piracy read about the White Rajahs of Sarawak. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2008-11-20 16:28 |
| #21 Since the tanker was headed to the US, who owns the oil? |
| Posted by: ed 2008-11-20 16:20 |
| #20 Yosemite Sam Yeah, but to be honest I'm starting to get to the point in life where the pizzia is starting to look pretty good. I'm membered of the time a few years back when I mentioned to a younger guy that I was kind of sorry I missed the days when you really could run off the the South Seas and live the life. He sort of looked at me and said you still could; he told me about how in the 90's he left hoime and went to to Hawaii to live for a few years. He just did't get it when I started laughing liek the fool I most likely am. |
| Posted by: Kelly 2008-11-20 15:46 |
| #19 The Wahhabist 'royal' Saudi, OPEC oil barons have 'donated' multiple millions to the likes of the PLO and many other Arab & Muslim terrorist groups, coupled with paying for thousands of madrasas (Islamic training centers)worldwide. For example. Saudi Sunni-Wahabbist cult based madrasas in Pakistan train future Sunni-related jihadists, which our troops are combating in Afghanistan & Iraq, Over many years Saudi oil profits have financed Sunni-Arab killers, responsible for horrific murders of many numbers of Israelis, also Americans, British & other foreign nationals, coupled with scores of airline hijackings and the PLO's horrific dismemberment of Lebanon. Saudi monetary contributions earned off of Western energy consumers also bought shipments of weapons, triggering the bloody 'Black September' civil war in Jordan, and more recent, 15 Wahhabist Saudi nationals out of the 19 September 11th, 2001 multi-terrorist attacks against America, resulting in over 3000 murdered innocent victims. A vile testament of a Saudi Wahhabist anti-Western 'education'. Previously, oil-super-rich, despotic, Saudi rulers, who made billions in manipulated petroleum profits, while millions were stuck on long gas lines -- now those tyrannical ruling Saudi Wahhabists are on the receiving end of having some of their own oil supertankers being held hostage for ransom, by Somalian Muslim pirates, possibly trained or assisted directly, or indirectly, with Saudi oil profit 'donations'. Reciprocity in motion! |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2008-11-20 15:26 |
| #18 India gets the right of hot pursuit in Somali waters Indian Navy could send more warships to counter Somalian pirates in the Gulf of Aden even as Somalia has permitted India to enter its territorial waters as part of an effort to check piracy. Besides India, navies of US and France have also been permitted hot pursuit in Somalian territorial waters which extends upto 12 nautical miles from the coastline. A Delhi class destroyer has already sailed from Mumbai to the Gulf of Aden to augment anti-piracy patrol off Somalia raising the number of Indian warships on patrol from Salalah to Aden to two. The 6,900-tonne Delhi class destroyers are the largest indigenously built warships till date and pack more fire power in them than frigates. They carry on board two Sea King helicopters, along with a Cheetah or a Chetak, and stock 16 Uran missiles, 100mm AK 100 gun, four multi-barrel 30mm AK 630 gun. |
| Posted by: john frum 2008-11-20 14:56 |
| #17 But OP, what about the innocent fishermen and the mothers and little chirrens who are loving their new flat screens bought with the pirate ransom money????? Yeah, my heart bleeds 5W/30 too. |
| Posted by: remoteman 2008-11-20 14:46 |
| #16 #8 - I think there's a "mole" in the local shipping industry that knows where every ship will be at any given time, and passes the message to the pirates. I also wouldn't doubt that this outfit started out small, but with each success, grew. The fact that NO ONE has really fought back hard is a sad commentary on where we are in the world today. India killed one mother-ship. Great, and we welcome the action. But where are the NATO vessels? Where is the 5th Fleet? Where are the B-52s from Diego Garcia? Where are the AC-130s? Bomb Eyl off the map, and then stand ready to repeat the process the next time a ship is hijacked, and you'll cut the profit margin to nil, and put the fear of God into those that attempt any future pirating. Saying "Tut, tut", or "Naughty, naughty", isn't going to get us anywhere. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-11-20 14:38 |
| #15 Dear Saudi Arabia. Guess what you can buy a lot of for a lot less than $25M? http://www.blackwaterusa.com/ |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-11-20 13:30 |
| #14 piracy discussion link |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-11-20 13:05 |
| #13 Kind of like P.J. O'Rourke in the Philippines, when he shelled out a few bucks for those communist guerrillas. Holidays in Hell, IIRC. |
| Posted by: Plastic Snoopy 2008-11-20 12:29 |
| #12 Yosemite Sam, To be a Wolf, in a world of sheep, I understand. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-11-20 11:37 |
| #11 I say a few of we Rantburgers set to sea and demand $25 million from these pirates to not kill them. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2008-11-20 11:17 |
| #10 You know, in a way I'm jealous of these guys. They are out there living life to the maximum - albeit it may be a shorted life if they tangle with India again - while I'm sitting on my ass in a cube eating leftover pizza from last night and reading about men having adventures. I bet there are a few here on Rantburg that understand... |
| Posted by: Yosemite Sam 2008-11-20 10:47 |
| #9 3dc, I was going to venture 'Islands in the Stream' but I that is a color flick. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-11-20 10:39 |
| #8 their orginization and frequency suggest new tactics... some kind of pirate navy? |
| Posted by: Black Charlie Jusoper3402 2008-11-20 10:23 |
| #7 Privateers broke up the Barbary pirates strangle hold on commerce.... Another thought: Long ago it was reported that Al Qaeda had at least six ships of their own, part of Bin Laden's investments to transport blood diamonds and other illicit cargo. He had brothers-in-law in the Philippines and on Madagascar, and little brother Khalil reportedly in the Tri-states area of South America overseeing drug trafficking. Maybe time to hunt down those mother ships with some mother-effing private contractors. |
| Posted by: Thealing Borgia 122 2008-11-20 10:14 |
| #6 BTW... what was the name of that old black and white movie about ship breakers in the Keys.. (not quite pirates...) |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-11-20 09:59 |
| #5 If failed states turn to pirate states... It is time for me to invest in Viking Pirates from Iceland... (Likely Valkyries as the men leave the land of Ice and Snow.) |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-11-20 09:56 |
| #4 UAW Pirates? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-11-20 08:50 |
| #3 Pirate - Somali for al Qaeda. |
| Posted by: WilliamMarcyTweed 2008-11-20 08:16 |
| #2 I'm not quite sure if I understand why the ENTIRE WORLD is powerless to take it back. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-11-20 07:21 |
| #1 Hey! Where's my cut? Seems like I "deserve" something for NOT hijacking the boat. |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2008-11-20 06:52 |