Getting their war on, Somalian Islamists going to fight Pirates for Super Tanker

[Turborama]

Seriously,you just can't make this shit up!


It's excellent movie material, though. I reckon there's already someone writing up the screen play as I write this...

Source: AP

By MOHAMED SHEIKH NOR, Associated Press Writer – Fri Nov 21, 1:09 pm ET

MOGADISHU, Somalia – A radical Islamic group in Somalia said Friday it will fight the pirates holding a Saudi supertanker loaded with $100 million worth of crude oil.

Abdelghafar Musa, a fighter with al-Shabab who claims to speak on behalf of all Islamic fighters in the Horn of Africa nation, said ships belonging to Muslim countries should not be seized.

"We are really sorry to hear that the Saudi ship has been held in Somalia. We will fight them (the pirates)," Musa told AP Television News.

In the past two weeks, Somalia's increasingly brazen pirates have seized eight vessels including the huge Saudi supertanker. Several hundred crew are now in the hands of Somali pirates. The pirates dock the hijacked ships near the eastern and southern Somali coast and negotiate for ransom.

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said Friday that the Saudi government was not negotiating with pirates and would not do so, but that what the ship's owners did was up to them.

Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991. When an umbrella Islamic group, which included the al-Shabab, controlled most of southern Somalia for six months in 2006, there were few reports of piracy.

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Edit: to fix typo

[TomInTib]

1. I see a sinking tanker.

We are already in it with the Saudis.

Instant fuck-up.

When al-Shabab shows up, it will look like a Mel Brook's movie.

[gravity]

2. I knew capturing a Saudi oil tanker would be a bad idea