dailymail.co.uk - 1/10/2009
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This is the dramatic moment a ransom of $3million was paid to Somali pirates to end the world's biggest ship hijacking. However things soon went badly wrong for the pirates as five drowned getting away.
news.yahoo.com - 1/10/2009
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MOGADISHU, Somalia Five of the pirates who hijacked
a Saudi supertanker drowned with their share of a
$3 million ransom, a relative said Saturday, the day after the bundle of cash was apparently dropped by parachute onto the deck of the ship. The ...
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5 Somali pirates drown with ransom share - Yahoo! News
google.com - 1/10/2009
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A parachute dropped by a small aircraft drops
over the MV Sirius Star at anchor, in this
U.S. Navy photo, Friday, Jan. 9, 2009, following an apparent payment via a parachuted container to pirates holding the ship. Somali pirates released the oil-laden ...
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The Associated Press: 5 Somali pirates drown with ransom ...
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This is priceless -
QandO —
... by parachute onto the Sirius Star, and today, that was done. But here’s where the priceless part of the saga comes in. The pirates got off the ship and headed to shore while the Sirius Star quickly got under way and out of the area. But as the pirates headed toward shore they apparently began squabbling about the ransom. It seems they were fighting among themselves enough that they ignored the bad weather and, quite simply, the weather capsized them. The result? Five Somali pirates drowned when a wave washed off their ...
Davy Jones' Locker Gets A Cash Infusion
The LLama Butchers —
Davy Jones' Locker Gets A Cash Infusion I suppose I really ought not to, but I find this story intensely amusing: Five Somali pirates drowned when a wave washed off their getaway boat as they squabbled over over how to split their $3 million ransom. The ransom had been paid to the pirates to end the world's biggest ship hijacking. The canister full of cash was parachuted onto the Sirius Star - observed by the U.S. Navy who provided these images - and the two-month ordeal of the 25 crew, including two Britons, was finally over. N'yar, Jim lad! Who knew Nemesis be such a good ...
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