{"id":194375,"date":"2008-09-28T05:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-28T10:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/28\/ok-me-bad-maybe-the-navy-does-care-about-piracy\/"},"modified":"2008-09-28T05:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T10:13:00","slug":"ok-me-bad-maybe-the-navy-does-care-about-piracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/28\/ok-me-bad-maybe-the-navy-does-care-about-piracy\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, Me Bad.  Maybe the Navy DOES Care About Piracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least when it involves a ship carrying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/09\/26\/africa\/pirates.php\">$30 million worth of, &#8220;grenade launchers, piles of ammunition, even battle tanks<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Looks like the Russians are pursuing the pirates too, in the spirit of international cooperation&#8230;or maybe just because it was <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">their<\/span> schwag that got taken.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>But according to diplomats and the Russian Interfax news agency, the cargo was 33 T-72 refurbished tanks, &#8220;quite a significant amount of ammunition&#8221; and grenade launchers. The supplier was a state-owned Ukrainian company. Ukrainian and Kenyan officials emphasized that the arms deal was perfectly legal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To be fair, three of the crewman were Russian, and I&#8217;m sure that the Russians were offended&#8230;After all, no one gets to steal and threaten the citizens and businesses of their former republics but them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least when it involves a ship carrying $30 million worth of, &#8220;grenade launchers, piles of ammunition, even battle tanks.&#8221; Looks like the Russians are pursuing the pirates too, in the spirit of international cooperation&#8230;or maybe just because it was their schwag that got taken. But according to diplomats and the Russian Interfax news agency, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,1052,1161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-crimes","category-naval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}