Saturday, November 05, 2005

Ya Think?

Pirates Attack Cruise Ship..."We Suspect The Motive Was Theft..."

MIAMI — Pirates fired a rocket-propelled grenade and machine guns Saturday in an attack on a luxury cruise liner off the east African coast, the vessel's owners said.

Two armed boats approached the Seabourn Spirit (search) about 100 miles off the coast of Somalia and fired as the boats' occupants attempted to get onboard, said Bruce Good, a spokesman for Miami-based Seabourn Cruise Line, a subsidiary of Carnival Corp.
The crew initiated a trained response and avoided being boarded, Good said. The ship outran them and changed its course.

"Our suspicion at this time is that the motive was theft," Good said.

Yes. The reincarnation of Sherlock Holmes. Pirates from Africa. Well hell, where else? Could have been UN reps making a champaigne run, and the fact that they were so easily fought off makes me think that this was indeed the case.

Come on. What kind of pirate hightails it as soon as a ship fights back?

French pirates, you say? Good point.

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