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
dailymail.co.uk - 1/10/2009
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Fighting Piracy
Neptunus Lex —
You’re doing it wrong.
The image depicts a $3 million pay-off for the Somali pirates that had seized the Saudi MV Sirius Star and held the ship and its crew for ransom. The policy of rewarding piracy will only encourage the lawless mariners of a lawless region into greater acts of depravity.
Well, most of them anyway:
However things went badly wrong for the pirates soon after the drop - they squabbled over how to split the money and then a wave washed off their getaway boat and drowned five of them. ...
Um, What Waves Guys?
Riehl World View —
... They have some photos of the airdrop here, but what went down afterward sounds like comedy gold. God, I wish this was on film. ...
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