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2010-11-24 Home Front: WoT

US jury convicts 5 Somalis in Navy ship attack

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Posted by tu3031 2010-11-24 12:40|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 But...but...but...This is just one of their "quaint tribal customs," and not a crime at all, in the context of their cockroach like lives. Like hand chopping, and stoning, and genital mutilation, and child marriages, and goat fancy. Nothing to see here, your honor...

Posted by M. Murcek 2010-11-24 16:09|| 2010-11-24 16:09|| Front Page Top

#2 they probably have a longer life expectancy, better diet and easier life incarcerated in a US prison than they did back in Somalia

Posted by anon1 2010-11-24 17:54|| 2010-11-24 17:54|| Front Page Top

#3 anon1, especially as pirates, if they run into the wrong people - like the Russians

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2010-11-24 20:37|| 2010-11-24 20:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Rambler you are so right
There was a rumour going round that a "death ship" of russian black-ops military, disguised as a trading dhow, was cruising the Gulf of Aden.

When pirates attack, they pop out their AK47s and those pirates are never heard from again.

rumour started in Djibouti where they allegedly stopped for fuel/resupply

Posted by anon1 2010-11-24 22:56|| 2010-11-24 22:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Q-dhows to the Russians for thinking this up.

Posted by gorb 2010-11-24 23:12|| 2010-11-24 23:12|| Front Page Top

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