Nice one, 61 less pirates on the open sea.
The Indian Navy scores big with this catch, and taking the rejects to Mumbai to be prosecuted even nicer.
Foxnews
The Indian navy captured 61 pirates who jumped into the Arabian Sea to flee a gunfight and fire on the hijacked ship from which they had staged several attacks, a navy statement said Monday.
Two Indian navy ships also rescued 13 crew members from the fishing boat Sunday night, nearly 695 miles (1,100 kilometers) off Kochi in southern India, the statement said.
The pirates had hijacked the Mozambique-flagged Vega 5 in December and had used it as a mother ship — a base from which they staged several attacks in the vast waters between East Africa and India.
A patrol aircraft spotted the mother ship Friday while responding to another vessel reporting a pirate attack, the Indian navy said. The pirates aborted the hijacking attempt and tried to escape in the mother ship.
When the Indian ships closed in Sunday night, the pirates fired on them. The hijacked vessel caught fire when the Indian navy returned fire, the navy said.
The pirates as well as the crew members jumped into the sea from the burning vessel, but were taken out by Indian sailors, the statement said.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Indian navy captures 61 pirates in Arabian Sea
Saturday, June 6, 2009
'Shipriders' to fight pirates
the straits times
NAIROBI (Kenya) - THERE'S not a warship for miles, a small pirate skiff
is speeding toward you and there's no way the creaking tub you're on
can outrun the bandits.
How long do you wait before you shoot? It's
just one of many possible dilemmas facing an increasing number of
private security companies who offer armed escorts - known in the
industry as 'shipriders' - from Somali pirates.
But legal problems abound for ships that carry guns. The first
hurdle is making sure the countries where ships embark and disembark
the weapons will allow them to do so - a legal nightmare in corrupt
Middle Eastern ports with terrorism problems.
Then there's the
issue of which law applies onboard the ship if a weapon is discharged:
the shooter's nationality, the law of the country whose flag the ship
is flying, or the territorial waters of the country the ship is in.
In
at least one case, a private security consultant said, an armed team
had rented weapons from the Djibouti government then was forced to drop
them over the side of the ship to avoid illegally importing them into
the country where they were due to disembark.
The consultant asked for anonymity because he did not wish to compromise his business.
Monday, April 13, 2009
AP: "US captain's rescue raises stakes in piracy ops"
An article from the AP this morning speculates whether the rescue operation for Captain Phillips which left three pirates dead has raised the stakes for other hostages held by pirates.
The AP fears that the actions of the French and US Navies over the past week with spark retaliatory strikes by the pirates. Yet when the Navies were using non-violent means to stop the pirates, hijackings and kidnapping continued.
If the two rescue operations are a sign of whats to come from the US and other countries operation in the Gulf of Aden then I think this will be the beginning of the end of piracy in the region.
