Somali Pirate's Treasure Chest Filled With Spanish Doubloons

What bothers me most is the civilian slaughter that remains unreported while the BG reader is fed this:

"Somali pirates get $3.3m ransom" by Associated Press | November 18, 2009

MOGADISHU, Somalia - As a Spanish warship looked on, a $3.3 million ransom was delivered by boat yesterday and Somali pirates freed a Spanish trawler and its 36 crew members.

Spain’s prime minister did little to deny paying off the hijackers - one reason the attacks are on the rise.

Make that connection yourself did you, MSM?

“The government did what it had to do,’’ Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero told a news conference in Madrid. “The important thing is that the sailors will be back with us. The first obligation of a country, of the government of a state, is to save the lives of its countrymen.’’

Depends on which country you are talking about.

If you live in one where a HORRIFYING INSIDE JOB of a FALSE FLAG was carried out and were SENT to war in Iraq on LIES, well.... that's not saving lives, is it?

Somali pirates attacked two more ships on Monday and still hold about a dozen ships with more than 200 crew, including a British couple who were taken from their 38-foot sailboat last month. Britain has refused to pay ransom for Paul and Rachel Chandler, whose boat was taken by pirates on Oct. 23. Authorities believe the Chandlers, who are in their 50s, are being held on land in Somalia. Pirates have demanded $7 million for their release - money the Chandlers’ relatives say the couple doesn’t have.

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So they had the phone taken away because that was the last I heard of 'em.

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And then this next incident (coincidence?) stinks of a psy-op set-up:

"Cargo ship crew fends off pirates; Maritime academy graduate onboard as Maersk Alabama hit again" by Brian MacQuarrie and Andrew Ryan, Globe Staff | November 19, 2009

Oh, you are KIDDING!! Imagine the odds!

BOURNE - Captain Paul Rochford, 52, a Barrington, R.I., resident and graduate of Massachusetts Maritime Academy, managed to escape four armed pirates who approached the Maersk Alabama about 6:30 a.m. local time. Evasive maneuvers, debilitating noise, and small-arms fire from a private security force drove off the pirates, who had fired automatic weapons as they approached within 300 yards.

“This is a great example of learning lessons,’’ said Rear Admiral Richard Gurnon, president of the maritime academy. The ship had been attacked by Somali pirates April 8, but guns were not onboard the Maersk Alabama that time....

And JUST AFTER a RANSOM was paid, huh?

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