The Lawspeaker
04-26-2009, 10:17 PM
Italian Cruise Ship Fires on Pirates
NAIROBI, Kenya (April 26) - The small white skiff approached the Italian cruise ship Melody after dinnertime as it sailed north of the Seychelles, the pirates firing wildly toward the 1,500 passengers and crew on board.
What the pirates didn't expect was that, in the darkness, the crew would fire back.
The commander of this Italian cruise ship, shown in May 2008, said his crew successfully fended off a pirate attack off the coast of Somalia. The ship's Israeli privacy security forces returned fire when six men in a small white boat attacked the ship, he said.
Click through this gallery to see more photographs related to recent acts of piracy. (http://news.aol.com/article/cruise-ship-pirates/429412)
Source. (http://news.aol.com/article/cruise-ship-pirates/429412)
NAIROBI, Kenya (April 26) - The small white skiff approached the Italian cruise ship Melody after dinnertime as it sailed north of the Seychelles, the pirates firing wildly toward the 1,500 passengers and crew on board.
What the pirates didn't expect was that, in the darkness, the crew would fire back.
The commander of this Italian cruise ship, shown in May 2008, said his crew successfully fended off a pirate attack off the coast of Somalia. The ship's Israeli privacy security forces returned fire when six men in a small white boat attacked the ship, he said.
Click through this gallery to see more photographs related to recent acts of piracy. (http://news.aol.com/article/cruise-ship-pirates/429412)
Source. (http://news.aol.com/article/cruise-ship-pirates/429412)