Tuesday - November 03, 2009

Pirates vs IslamoGangstas

Pirates face gun battle to hold Paul and Rachel Chandler

Somali pirates who kidnapped a British couple last month were preparing to defend their hostages from Islamist extremists, who they said were heading to the area with plans to seize them.

The captors of Paul and Rachel Chandler said that they believed the militants would try to take the Britons by force. “We heard that Islamists with battlewagons are on the way. I believe they will not succeed in confiscating the British couple,” Mohamed Shakir, a pirate commander, told The Times yesterday. A battlewagon refers to a pick-up truck with a heavy machinegun mounted on the back — the favoured fighting vehicle in the war-torn region.

The commander denied reports that there had already been a gun battle between rivals struggling for ownership of the Chandlers, who were seized ten days ago aboard their 38ft yacht, Lynn Rival, but added that preparations were being made to defend their human prizes in what threatens to become a deadly tug-of-war. Mr Shakir said that the hostages, who are aged 59 and 55, had been taken inland to Bahdo, a town 125 miles northeast of the notorious pirate haven of Haradheere, and that more pirates were on their way to the town to act as reinforcements.

“Armed pirates are flowing into Bahdo to defend against any Islamists’ attack,” he said.

So Somali thugs can fight Somali pirates, and that’s Ok. Over who gets to have the prisoners for ransom. But the armies of the world won’t step in and rescue them. This is messed up.

Posted by Drew458     on 11/03/2009 at 12:46 PM   
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