Friday - April 10, 2009

American cargo ship captain, Richard Phillips, has attempted to escaped from Somali pirates.

Aw Nuts!
I guess the nigger Somali-Golli* was a better swimmer.

Cargo ship captain attempts to escape pirate captors
American cargo ship captain, Richard Phillips, has attempted to escaped from Somali pirates holding him hostage in a lifeboat by jumping overboard under cover of darkness.

By Mike Pflanz in Nairobi
Last Updated: 4:21PM BST 10 Apr 2009

He made his break for freedom before dawn with an attempt to swim to a nearby US Navy destroyer but was immediately recaptured when at least one of the pirates jumped into the sea and chased him.
He is reportedly unharmed, according to an unnamed US official who spoke to CNN.

Mr Phillips has been held hostage since late on Wednesday, when pirates failed in their attempt to hijack his ship, the US-flagged Maersk Alabama, 400 miles north-east of Mogadishu.
They bundled him into a lifeboat, cut loose from the 17,500-ton cargo ship and have been drifting since. The US Navy destroyer, the USS Bainbridge, arrived at the scene on Thursday morning, but failed to force an end to the stand-off.

Several other US warships were said to be heading towards the scene, but the pirates vowed on Friday that they would “fight back” if there were attacked.
At the same time, pirate gangs holding other vessels hijacked earlier were reportedly also converging on the Indian Ocean flashpoint 400 miles north of Mogadishu.

“We are not afraid of the Americans,” one of the pirates told Reuters by satellite telephone on behalf of the gang holding the captain.
“We will defend ourselves if attacked.” A pirate commander onshore in the Somali pirate town of Eyl said that preparations were being made by other pirates to set sail to help their beleaguered friends.

“We are planning to reinforce our colleagues who told us that a navy ship was closing in on them and I hope the matter will soon be solved,” said Abdi Garad. “We are making final preparations and will try our best to save our friends.”

Mohamed Samaw, a resident of Eyl who claims to have a “share” in a British-owned ship hijacked on Monday, said that four foreign ships previously captured by pirates are heading toward the lifeboat. There are a total of 54 hostages on two of the ships.

“The pirates have summoned assistance – skiffs and mother ships are heading towards the area from the coast,” said a Nairobi-based diplomat. “We knew they were gathering yesterday.”
The pirates who boarded the Maersk Alabama on Wednesday before being repelled by its crew are believed to be armed only with automatic weapons.

From The Telegraph

* Sorry to edit your work Peiper, but niggers are a distinctly American phenomena I feel. They achieve that status by a mostly deliberate choice, choosing to be lawless and unemployable and uneducated when they are surrounded by opportunity and assistance. These guys in Somalia are lawless and uneducated, but I don’t think that they have ever had much of any other choice. And they certainly never had any government money coming their way. So it’s a bit of nuance, although I do agree that these pirates are very very close to the nigger line. [ so close that I’m willing to be swayed by a decent argument ] So let’s use golliwog or Somali-golli or similar if a pejorative descriptor is called for.

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