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Pirates holding a Saudi-owned oil supertanker off the coast of Somalia have set the vessel free after receiving a ransom payment, a piracy monitor in neighboring Kenya and the U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet said Saturday.
“The supertanker VLCC (very large crude carrier. It is a massive supertanker)Â Sirius Star is currently under way to safe waters,” Andrew Mwangura of the Kenya Seafarers Association said in an e-mail. (snip)
The pirates had been expected to release the supertanker after receiving the ransom payment Friday, but four pirates drowned after their skiff capsized in rough seas while they were leaving the Sirius Star, according to a journalist who spoke to one of the pirates on board.
There were five pirates in the skiff and one survived, the journalist said. The bodies of the other four were recovered, he said.
The pirates told another journalist they received $3 million in ransom money but lost part of it when the skiff capsized.
Fail.
There are actually several contradictory reports on how many drowned. The AFP, which is contact with the pirates leader, says 6 drowned. The AP and many other sources say 5. And none of them have a good picture of the pirates boat to caption with “fail!” What’s up with that? They can stage tons of photos to make the US and Israeli militaries look bad, but can’t get one shot of the pirate’s boat? The media gets a fail tag, too.
