Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Those Wacky Somali Pirates

As if they were a cross between Danny Ocean and Jack Sparrow, these crazy guys are always planning the next great caper. The latest, if you haven't heard, is capturing a Saudi Arabian oil tanker carrying two million barrels of crude oil. I'm not sure where they can sell that much oil, or if it's just the thrill of the capture at this point.
They are calling this their "most audacious hijack to date", though I still think the Ukrainian weapons load was a great haul. Still, I'm sure there's many who would say the greatest threat they possess is the possible delay of video games.
The biggest mystery, and perhaps one that will cause a cursed band of undead pirates to be marauding soon, is the unknown shipment from Iran that the pirates returned for ransom before UN inspectors could see its contents. Please, though, they are pirates, behaving as pirates and doing things that pirates do. There's no need to compare them to terrorists.