Somali pirates vow to hunt down, kill American sailors
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AFP/US Navy/Ho/File – A file US Navy photo of Somali pirates making an escape back iinto Somali waters. Pirates off the coast … MOMBASA, Kenya – Somali pirates vowed to hunt down American ships and kill their sailors and French forces detained 11 other brigands in a high-seas raid as tensions ratcheted up Wednesday off Africa's volatile eastern coast.
Pirates fired grenades and automatic weapons at an American freighter loaded with food aid but the ship escaped and was heading to Kenya under U.S. Navy guard.
The Liberty Sun's American crew successfully blockaded themselves inside the engine room — the same tactic that the Maersk Alabama crew used to thwart last week's attack on their ship. They were not injured in the attack Tuesday night but the vessel sustained some damage, owner Liberty Maritime Corp. said.
One of the pirates whose gang attacked the Liberty Sun said Wednesday his group was specifically targeting American ships and sailors.
"We will seek out the Americans and if we capture them we will slaughter them," said a 25-year-old pirate based in the Somali port of Harardhere who gave only his first name, Ismail.
"We will target their ships because we know their flags. Last night, an American-flagged ship escaped us by a whisker. We have showered them with rocket-propelled grenades," boasted Ismail, who did not take part in the attack.
The French forces launched an early morning attack on a pirate "mother ship" after spotting the boat Tuesday with a surveillance helicopter and observing the pirates overnight.
A "mother ship" is usually a seized foreign vessel that pirates use to transport speedboats far out to sea and resupply them as they plot their attacks. The ship was intercepted 550 miles (900 kilometers) east of the Kenyan city of Mombasa.
IT SEEMS TO ME THAT SOMALI IS ATTEMPTING TO GO THE ROUTE OF JAPAN AND GERMANY
THAT ROUTE BEING THE ONE THAT GETS YOU WIPED COMPLETELY OUT BY THE UNITED STATES SO THAT YOU CAN START FROM GROUND ZERO
OBVIOUSLY THE GOVERNMENT OF SOMALI HAS A BIGGER PLAN IN MIND BY NOT TRYING TO STOP THE PIRATE MOVEMENT IN THEIR COUNTRY.
I'M PRETTY SURE THERE IS NO ONE PERSON ACTUALLY IN CHARGE OF THE GOVERNMENT AND THAT MULTIPLE FACTIONS ARE INVOLVED.
THIS REALLY SOUNDS LIKE A JOB FOR SUPERMAN and SPIDERMAN
DOES ANYONE HAVE CLARK KENT AND PETER PARKER'S CELL PHONE NUMBERS?
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