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BBC News: UK and US forces 'rescue pirate-held Italian ship'

Thread starter Jlou
Start date Oct 11, 2011

Jlou

Midshipman

Oct 11, 2011

BBC News - UK and US forces 'rescue pirate-held Italian ship'

Handler

War Hero

Oct 11, 2011

About time some of these scruffy rats were caught, chuck the bastards back for the sharks, useless oxygen thieves!!

rumdownmythroat

Banned

Oct 11, 2011

well done US and UK!

Hermes_R12

MIA

Oct 11, 2011

BZ to all involved and the RFA prove their worth yet again.

Joint_Force_Harrier

MIA

Oct 11, 2011

Any STC involvement?

Asst_Ed

Lantern Swinger

Oct 11, 2011

Few pixs from the operation

http://navynews.co.uk/archive/news/item/1871

As you can see the ship's pretty well protected from pirates with all that barbed wire

wysiwyg

Lantern Swinger

Oct 12, 2011

Asst_Ed said:
Few pixs from the operation

http://navynews.co.uk/archive/news/item/1871

As you can see the ship's pretty well protected from pirates with all that barbed wire

Not well enough to stop them in the first place!

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