A-HAAAAA And they no doubt made their way from K-Mart to Mexico to the coast of Africa and were forced into the hands of these “young, strapping lads” and made to do awful things with them!!!

If ever there was an argument for gun control…and a ban on assault weapons…this would be it.

(sarcasm)

Recall this from the AP April 12:

French Troops Attack Somali Pirates After 30 Hostages Freed

By Angela Doland

PARIS, April 11 — Helicopter-borne French troops swooped in on Somali pirates Friday after they freed 30 hostages from a yacht, seizing six of the hijackers and recovering sacks of money — apparently ransom paid by the ship’s owners.

The pirates had boarded the 288-foot French luxury yacht a week ago, capturing its mostly French crew off the coast of Somalia in the Gulf of Aden. Pirates seized more than two dozen vessels off the Somali coast last year.

Gen. Jean-Louis Georgelin, chief of staff of France’s armed forces, said the pirates released the hostages after negotiating with the ship’s owner. That phase of the operation was calm, with no weapons fired, he said. The hostages were brought to safety and the pirates went ashore.

After the pirates were on Somali territory, a French attack helicopter chased a vehicle carrying some of them, firing to destroy its engine, the general said. …

http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....03537.html

Also, two days earlier, as reported by CNN:

Hostage, 2 pirates killed in French rescue operation

A French hostage and two pirates died Friday in a rescue operation off Somalia, the French president’s office in Paris said Friday.

Four hostages, including a child, were freed from the hijacked yacht after almost a week of captivity, Nicolas Sarkozy’s office said.

The four adults and a child had been held aboard their yacht, the Tanit, since it was seized in the Gulf of Aden on Saturday, the president’s statement said.

The military made its move after the pirates refused their offers, including one to swap an officer for the mother and child held aboard, and threatened to execute the hostages one-by-one — and because the Tanit was drifting closer to the Somalian coast, the defense ministry said.

The possibility that the pirates could take their hostages ashore was a red line that prompted the mission. The same red line triggered two successful rescue missions by the French military last year, the ministry said.

According to French media reports, a special forces unit attacked the hijacked vessel from different directions in two motor-powered rubber boats. The pirates opened fire and the special forces team fired back. …

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/.....ia.france/

This is quite apparently not the French military of old…

It is not the Sailor, Airman or Soldier I have a complaint with…..
….it is their Cowardice Regime that holds sway here!

Clearly, the pirates must be U.S. military veterans.

After all, it was a French ship.”

very very funny Steve!

Why didn’t they simply sink the boats and let them swim back to shore. It would serve as a real deterrent to these pirates.

Must have caught the French between naps and ironing the “Surrender” flags!!