Somali pirates waste ransom money on weddings and orgies
Published: 19 November, 2009, 15:00
Edited: 20 August, 2010, 02:04
TAGS: Crime, Africa, Thrills&Spills, Piracy
The Somali pirates have spent the € 2.7 million they got for the liberation of the Alakrana trawler from the Spanish government on weddings and orgies.
A journalist from the Spanish El Mundo newspaper have managed to penetrate the pirate base in the town of Harardhere and settle in a local hotel, watching the behavior of the buccaneers.
The town is home to about 6.000 people, most of whom are involved activities connected with piracy. According to various sources, the number of the Somali pirates is not more than 1,200 people.
"Yesterday they celebrated eight weddings. All the grooms were pirates," the hotel owner told the Spanish reporter.
According to the journalist’s observations, after Alakrana was released, Harardhere became the center of endless “orgies, money, shooting and sex.”
Most of the pirates have three or more wives; the number of them depends on the amount of loot. Marring a corsair has become a dream for most of the local women.
Pirates enjoy comforts inaccessible to other Harardhere citizens. Their houses are the only ones with electricity, as they use generators stolen from the vessels.
”Previously, we could not get married because we lived in poverty, life was difficult, but the situation was unsafe. Women need love and money, and the pirates have the money, and they show us their love,” 17-year-old Khabibo Salad, the wife of a pirate recently captured by German naval forces, said.
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And if some do not want to be bound to them by a wedding knot, there is another option.
“Today girls can marry, but many also agree to be paid for sex,” Khabibo Salad added.
The pirates offer the enormous compensation of €2,500 for taking part in their orgies.
The Alakrana trawler with, 36 crewmembers on board, was released by the pirates on November 17. According to El Pais newspaper, it cost the Spanish government €2.7 million in ransom.
But the wave of weddings began in Harardhere even before the buccaneers got the money, as most of them organized the feast on loan, counting on the ransom being paid.
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Mike, In fact I have lot of facts in my disposal, Spain and France, Thailand, China, and others are in the Horn of Africa to commit ecological genocide against naturer and the people of area. Spain, France and other EU nations, both Spain and France in particular, have been conducting massive illegal fishing in the Horn of Africa since the 1991 collapse of the Barre regime. This is a fact. Spain, France often use flags of convenient to disguise their illegal fishing practices in the Horn of Africa. Spain and France are not only nations who are committing ecological war crimes against Somalia. However, if the world stays silent of Spain, France and other nations current massive fishing practices in the Horn of Africa, the fish stocks in the Indian, the fish stock in these waters will be destroy in the same as the Atlantic Fishery. Media overplay of piracy is designed to cover and mask the lucrative and highly destructive 6B fishing industry driven by Europe’s insatiable appetite for high quality tuna. Somalis are black Africans and weak. It is much easier for Europe to speak hungry and starving Somalis than the fact Europe is stealing the nations most valuable natural resource. Despite being confronted with hard facts on how Spanish fishing trawlers are wrecking havoc in Somali waters, Spain and France have manage to keep the need to fight against illegal fishing a separate and as a non issue from the urgent need to fight against sea piracy! I wonder why?
Sarah, Before you put pen to paper, you might want to gather some facts. First: The trawler was not in Somali waters; It was fishing over 300 miles from Somalia Second: How is fishing in international waters stealing? You may not like it, but it is not illegal Third: Fishing is not a ruthless and evil ecological war crime - you have the nutty environmental nut jub lingo down though If you are so offended about tuna fishing, do not eat tuna. Leaves more for those in this world who enjoy tuna and who do not view staying alive as evil. Certainily the products that result from fishing are beneficial to mankind. You have been brainwashed. You are a faithful disciple of Al Gore - another nut job. > Now, I wondered if the media-including RT- ever bothered to know what was this fishing trawler doing in Somali waters , or perhaps they wish to investigate how many millions of tones of highly quality tuna that Spain steals from Indian Ocean waters of Horn of Africa every year? The lawless and unprotected waters of Somalia have now come prey to most ruthless and evil ecological war crime. Why is the media not bothered to investigate this? When the world media wake up to the coming ecological destruction of marine life and ecology of the Horn of Africa?
Give it up Sarah. No one is going to be able to stop fishing in international waters. Find yourself another cause, like promoting everyone to learn how to have a productive garden, how to get by without electricity, how to filter and purify water for drinking, how to stay warm without artificial heat and just how to survive in a socialist world that has destroyed the infrastructure and people's freedom and employment. Get on Obama's bandwagon and go to work for the government. They will be the last ones to have the things that most of mankind have, but their's will run out and they will be forced to learn how to survive with the rest of us. Long live the dreams of man, maybe someday we can start over again without the socialists, communists and their ilk.