Pirates Aren't Pirates - They're Green Conservationists!

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.

World's Largest Aquarium in a Mall is a Bloodbath

A Dubai shopping mall is is set to have a grand opening on October 30th of it's humongous walk through aquarium. The Burj Dubai Mall Aquarium is the home to 33,000 living creatures including 400 sharks. It is the largest shark tank in the world.

Apparently the sharks are devouring each other with at least 40 sharks dead. The sharks are also attacking the divers that come in to feed them.

Dubai, on the Saudi Arabian pennisula, is a primarily Muslim country.

No word on whether the sharks are practicing an aquatic jihad.

Pirates Seize Ship Carrying Tanks; Demand $35 Million

Real life pirates have captured a Ukrainian cargo ship that is carrying T-34 tanks and other munitions. The pirates operate along the 1800 mile coast of the primarily Muslim nation of Somalia. Somalia is in the primarily Muslim area called the Horn of Africa at the south end of the Red Sea and across from the primarily Muslim area of Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Yemen is where Muslim terrorists tried to blow up the American Embassy last week.

The capital of primarily Muslim Somalia is Mogadishu, where US lost soldiers who were dragged through the streets naked by Muslim warlords and their peons in 1993. [Mogadishu story here, but warning that the pictures of US soldiers dragged by Muslims is sickening]

It apparently is not known if the pirates are Muslim (since no main stream media has said so) so I won't assume they are Muslim. Perhaps they are Buddists.

Pirates rob all kinds of ships and sailing boats along the primarily Musim coast of Somalia and often kidnap people for ranson, but now they have captured a cargo ship with tanks in it from Russia.

The pirates (who we don't know are Muslim) have demanded $35 million in ransom. The US has sent a ship to the area and the Russians are really pissed and have also sent a warship.

Story here.