Maltese forces retake tanker hijacked by migrants, five arrested

[hermosabeach]

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019...tanker-hijacked-migrants-190328072949540.html

A Maltese special operations team boarded a tanker that had been hijacked by migrants rescued at sea and returned control to the captain before escorting it to a Maltese port.
Five men suspected of being the leaders of the hiijacking were arrested and taken away in a prison van while others disembarked from the vessel that arrived in Valletta on Thursday.
The Palau-flagged tanker Elhiblu I had picked up the migrants on Tuesday evening in waters under Libyan coastguard jurisdiction and headed for Tripoli.

 

[deersniper]

Migrants. Bad everywhere.

 

[ArmyJerry]

Why are they not dead?

 

[GUN NUT in IA]

Why are they not dead?

Most likely they didn't have a license to hunt them - or they were out of season.

Not that I agree with either of those possible reasons.

 

[pmclaine]

People from Malta are probably the nicest people in the world.

Probably feeding the prisoners "Rarebit" right now and getting ready to roll them on to Italy.

 

[MtnCreek]

If they're capable of learning, next time they won't see the "migrants" that need rescuing.

 

[Blue Sky Country]

Could have used some more of this:

Navy SEALs' Simultaneous Headshots on Somali Pirates Were Procedure

According to former U.S. Navy SEAL Harry Humphries, if Capt. Richard Phillips rescuers had not shot all three pirates, with three perfectly placed headshots, the captain would be dead.

abcnews.go.com

 

[deersniper]

Could have used some more of this:

Navy SEALs' Simultaneous Headshots on Somali Pirates Were Procedure

According to former U.S. Navy SEAL Harry Humphries, if Capt. Richard Phillips rescuers had not shot all three pirates, with three perfectly placed headshots, the captain would be dead.

abcnews.go.com

If they used the Barrett they probaly would have missed the pirate and the whole ship