Somali pirate's body washes ashore with $153,000 in ransom money
 

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOGADISHU, Somalia - The body of a Somali pirate who drowned just after receiving a huge ransom washed onshore with $153,000 US in cash, a resident said Sunday.

Five pirates drowned Friday when their small boat capsized after they received a reported $3 million ransom for releasing a Saudi oil tanker. Local resident Omar Abdi Hassan said one of the bodies had been found on a beach near the coastal town of Haradhere and relatives were searching for the other four.

"One of them was discovered and they are still looking for the other ones. He had $153,000 in a plastic bag in his pocket," he said Sunday.

The U.S. navy released photos of a parachute dropping a package onto the deck of the Sirius Star, and said the package was likely to be the ransom delivery.

But five of the dozens of pirates who had hijacked the supertanker drowned when their small boat capsized as they returned to shore in rough weather. Three other pirates survived but also lost their share of the ransom.

Graeme Gibbon Brooks, managing director of the British company Dryad Maritime Intelligence Service Ltd, said the incident was unlikely to deter attacks.

"The loss or potential loss of the ransom means the pirates will be all the more keen to get the next ransom in," he said. "There are people lining up to be pirates."

The Saudi ship, carrying crude worth $100 million, was seized in mid-November.

:lol

Karma is a nasty bitcch

haha.. some special ops guys are having fun.

Weren't they fighting over the money who gets a bigger share? At least that's what the Chinese newspaper said that led to the boat capsizing..

rofl all five of them drown lulz! i woulda kept the money ifi saw that

hahahahaha, karma at its finest.

It may be karma but like they said in the article, next time it happens there going to demand ransom again and get it. Regardless if they died or not they still got 3 million dollars for nothing.

Some of my finest work, thanks you.

looks like voodoo got em
can't take it when you die

This is going to get worse before it gets better. A few more ransoms and more of the big hitters are going to get involved and just blow the shit out of anybody in a rubber dinghy that is in the area.

I sure hope it was special ops and not an accident.

Then again, not much point in sending in special ops to take out the pirates if it doesn't become common knowledge and/or money was recovered. Otherwise the next pirates in line won't have to watch their backs.

lol owned.

:bowrofl:

to funny

asian newspapers say the speedboat flipped in the storm

:rofl: karma

Thx darwin!

you'd think pirates would at least learn how to swim.. =/ or maybe a life jacket lol..