They’re not “pirates”, they’re eco-warriors:
The spokesman of a group of gunmen who hijacked two ships off of Somalia’s northeastern coast has said that they are not pirates.
The man, who did not identify himself, contacted Radio Garowe, a station based in the regional capital of the semiautonomous state of Puntland.
“I have contacted you after hearing reports through international media that pirates hijacked a ship after it left the port of Bossaso,” the man told Radio Garowe.
He claimed that the Russia-registered ship, Svitzer Korsakov, is “part of the environmental destruction” being committed by various foreign ships off of Somali shores.
“We are the gentlemen who work in the ocean…since the [Somali] civil war began the ocean has been our Mother,” the man said.
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Asked whether or not the group would ask for ransom, the man said: “It has been the tradition to take ransom payment, but we will bring these ships in front of the law.”
Yo, ho, ho, and a bottle of dumb. First al-Qaeda, now the pirates have learned how to play the scurvy swabs in the leftist media like a hornpipe.
After all, One man’s Pirate is another man’s Environmentalist.
Posted by Brian @ 7:27 am
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