As reported on this blog earlier, pirates have seized a Ukrainian cargo ship that has T-34 Russian tanks and other munitions aboard, off the coast of Somalia, and have demanded a $30 million dollar ransom to hand it back.
I thought they were bad guys but Pirate spokesman (what??? Pirates have spokesmen now???) Sugule Ali said in a 45 minute interview that they weren't really bad guys, they just wanted money and that they were saving the marine environment off the Somalian coast. As the New York Times reported:
"[I]n the eyes of the world, the pirates had been misunderstood. We don’t consider ourselves sea bandits,” he said. “We consider sea bandits those who illegally fish in our seas and dump waste in our seas and carry weapons in our seas. We are simply patrolling our seas. Think of us like a coast guard.”
Like a coast guard??
Green pirates protecting against illegal fishing and waste dumping - with spokesmen?
I wonder if they will get a shoe deal soon.
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