Hey! They're not green!!

Prior to this incident, the Russians had captured 11 pirates onboard a Russian-flagged tanker.
They put them on a lifeboat 300 miles out to sea and 'released' the pirates.
Heh.

Separating the men from the boys.. I wish America could do that.

If a person is apprehended while committing acts of piracy they should be tried in front of a shipboard tribunal and, if found guilty, executed immediately after "debriefing". Walking the plank has historically been an effective and inexpensive method of eliminating pirates, particularly if they were "in a condition" that would be conducive to attracting sharks when they hit the water. Keelhauling was another method, but ships were much smaller in the past and would be rather labor intensive on today's large seagoing vessels.
I also believe that our Commander in Chief could authorize the captains of US Naval vessels to hold aforementioned tribunals and executions, as long as the acts of piracy had taken place in internatonal waters and if the apprehending ship remained in international waters until justice had been delivered. This would, of course, be predicated by the necessity that we had a CinC with a set of balls, which unfortunately we do not seem to have at this point in time.

Not pretty? It's an absolute thing of beauty.

Too bad these Russians weren't from the Red Army of 1945.

Otlichno! Wonderful!

In international relations, a country can be the strong horse or a weak sister. There is no other choice.

Bravo Zulu, Ivan.

I'm still resigned to our President apologizing for the unreasonable expectations exhibited by the four late Americans murdered by Islamist pirates this week.

He's about a week behind and 180 degrees out on any issue I could mention.

We are in a lot of trouble.

I like!

Don't expect BO to be doing anything like that any time soon.

did you hear at about 3:10?? sounds like an american voice that says.. "Show me the money"??? or was i hearing things??

The voice may be one of the russians' in timbre, but the accent is totally gone as he says "show me the money" and then "show the money". But then again, what would a russian accent sound like when saying that.

I hope the pirates were still on the ship when it blew up.

Hangtown Bob

You can bet your sweet bibby.

Made my day

Piracy was and still is considered a crime against all lawfully constituted nations and an insult to God. As Roger aptly sums up above, Captains have the traditional right to deal with pirates as they see fit, and your typical captain of old was no girlie-man who shrunk from fast, rough justice.

It is God's business to deal with the souls of those - now obviously deceased - pirates. Our job is to protect the innocent and defend the rule of law. Even a starving Somalian can chose to dig in the earth for grubs instead of eating the bread of torture and death. There would be no shortage of Navy and Marine volunteers to wipe piracy from Somalia, sea and shore, if only we had a leader with the guts to give the order.

My memory's a little hazy about my former Navy days, but I seem to recall that the penalty for Piracy was immediate execution, as in, immediately, right now, no judical review, etc. Done and gone. We can sit around on the dirt and debate whether or not that's in everyone's best interests, but I don't think international law has changed.

That was so beautiful, it brought a tear of joy to my eye.

amazing ... I understand a little Russian ... who knew?!

A few more countries with balls doing that, and piracy would become a non issue.

Gerard, where's the "not pretty" part? I must have missed it. This is basically how to deal with pirates, although the Russians should have been a bit firmer with them. If we don't have the stomach for this, then we have no business conducting anti-piracy patrols.

I don't find the collection of small arms compellingly damning - if I were fishing in those waters I'd have a collection of small arms close at hand as well. But a) that's a lot of people to be running a fishing boat, b) I didn't see any fishing gear on deck, and c) those boarding ladders ....

I hope to God they DID leave those muslim vermine on board their ship when blowing it up. They sure as hell don't deserve to live. I say we need to take this aproach to all somali pirates. Identify them as pirates, blow their ship (WITH the vermine still on bard). If any of the vermine makes it off the boat then it's time for target practice with the machine guns. Nothing wrong with extermining vermine. Go russians!!!