Yep, that was nice. Interestingly, in Russia this story initiated a discussion whether the captured pirates should be transfered to Russia and brought to justice according to law. I agree that the pirates are not those people we should be too soft with. In fact i don't care how many pirates are being killed during those navy raids, but i believe those, who were not killed, should be arrested and judged.

No. You guys are doing fine as it is.

Originally Posted by A Can of Man

No. You guys are doing fine as it is.

Well, my point is that they're saying they decided to release them because 'there were not sufficient legal grounds to detain them'. That's hypocricy, there IS sufficient legal ground for that. Russian penal code offers anyone a striking opportunity to be jailed for piracy (article 227, up to 15 years), kidnapping (article 126, up to 20 years) and many other things. On the other hand, it's much easier just to throw that scum away. But there is a chance that they will reach the coast and continue piracy.

Personally I think they could make the tag and release process a lot cheaper by removing the rubber boat from the equation, those that reach the shore will have a great career as Olympic swimmers and wont need to resort to piracy.

I am not a fan of jailing them as I can see no good reason for tax payers to support these people in prison.

Yeah.
Seems like rumor is flying around that the Russians decided to shoot the pirates and dump their bodies on a life raft.

Well, in Russia 750 people out of 100,000 are in jail. It's more than a million prisoners. I doubt taxpayers will lose smth because of a bunch of some kids from Africa. It would be the same as extradition, just without official request. There are a lot of foreign prisoners.

Originally Posted by A Can of Man

Yeah.
Seems like rumor is flying around that the Russians decided to shoot the pirates and dump their bodies on a life raft.

I really hope thats not just a rumor .That, seems like a good idea to me, Russia SHOULD shoot them, so should every body else's country's, we need to do like was done in the sailing ship days, hunt them down and kill them.
The Russian navy should be praised for shooting pirates.

I would hope it is a rumour as it is an incredible waste of a life raft otherwise.

By all means catch and shoot them but either dump them over board or better yet on the shore of the port they left as a warning.

Given that the warship arrived on station pretty quickly, that the crew had secured themselves in a safe room and disabled the engines, makes it seem that there was a free fire zone. I would not be surprised about the strong response, something the Russians have done before, just to let people know that you don't mess with "us" unless you like pain and suffering.

I'm sure that this has been done in recent history, but I seem to recall the rescue of a kidnapped KGB resident in Lebanon in the late eighties, which resulted in most of the kidnappers dieing, along strangely enough with some of their relatives! Suddenly there were no more Russians kidnapped.

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