Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Pirates deadline passed for blowing up M/V Faina

The Somali Pirates gave last night as the deadline for ransom to be paid for the M/V Faina. They said they would blow up the ship if ransom was not paid by the deadline.

The deadline has passed. The ship wasn't blown up.

I was wondering how these pirates decided to make the announcement they would blow up the ship. I can only imagine one of them make such a bold proclamation, and the others said "oh yes, that will really show them, let's do that!" But then reality set in at some point and probably the Pirates decided against this.

Russia Today has an article and a video regarding the M/V Faina, especially from the viewpoint of families of the crew.

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