Somali pirates sentenced to life in U.S. prison

Yahoo ^ | 3/14/11 | Jeremy Pelofsky - Reuters

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Five Somali men were sentenced on Monday to spend the rest of their lives in a U.S. prison after being convicted of piracy and trying to attack an American warship off the coast of Africa last year.

In November the group was convicted by a jury in a federal court in Virginia on charges of piracy, attacking to plunder a vessel and various other firearms and weapons charges.

Piracy off the coast of Somalia has been a growing problem over the last several years, with pirate gangs making tens of millions of dollars in ransoms, ..

The five men sentenced on Monday were captured after the April 1 attack in which a Navy frigate, the USS Nicholas, exchanged fire with a suspected pirate vessel in the Indian Ocean west of the Seychelles, sinking a skiff and confiscating its mother ship.

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[blueunicorn6]

The humane thing to do is to send them back to Somalia. Fly them home! Of course, we don’t have the money to pay the landing fees, so kick them out of the aircraft at 30,000 feet. Bomb them with their own people. There’s a message even those dummies could understand.