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Somali pirates sentenced to life in American prison

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Posted by trailing wife 2011-12-16 01:17|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Does this mean I have to pay for their meals and housing? To quote Hanover Fist, "Gimme a break!"

Posted by imoyaro 2011-12-16 01:54|| 2011-12-16 01:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Next thing we know they're going to be put in a CA jail ....

Posted by gorb 2011-12-16 02:10|| 2011-12-16 02:10|| Front Page Top

#3 The best way around this problem is for the USN to arrange a "shore detention" for captured pirates, that involves a special unit with an indeterminate and unmemorable nomenclature, to transport the pirates via helicopter to a classified "detention facility" in some undetermined place.

The helicopter leaves with its cargo of pirates, and returns to the ship empty, with the pirates "no longer under US jurisdiction, so are no longer accountable".

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-12-16 08:39|| 2011-12-16 08:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Halal meals and a an arrow pointing to Mecca for the next 50 years. And for God sakes, dirty infidel screws, don't touch their Korans.

Posted by Ulose Munster2089 2011-12-16 08:52|| 2011-12-16 08:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Not exactly what I had in mind. Just helicopters leaving with pirates, and returning without pirates.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-12-16 10:58|| 2011-12-16 10:58|| Front Page Top

#6 for three squares a day, why wouldn't you hijack a ship?

Posted by jack salami 2011-12-16 11:06|| 2011-12-16 11:06|| Front Page Top

#7 In Somalia, this is the equivalent of winning the Lotto.

Posted by mojo 2011-12-16 15:39|| 2011-12-16 15:39|| Front Page Top

#8 An underwater detention facility with sharks and crabs for guards.

Posted by gorb 2011-12-16 16:14|| 2011-12-16 16:14|| Front Page Top

#9 The blog chronicling Jean and Scott Adam's journey around the world is still up, for anyone who's interested. Too bad it had to end like this.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2011-12-16 17:53|| 2011-12-16 17:53|| Front Page Top

#10 If it was me they would've been, I dunno,..."abducted by aliens" or sumthin.

Posted by tu3031 2011-12-16 21:57|| 2011-12-16 21:57|| Front Page Top

#11 Life in an American prison is probably still better than living in Somalia.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2011-12-16 22:05|| 2011-12-16 22:05|| Front Page Top

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