Showing posts with label pirates. Show all posts
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Somali Pirates Catch Some Kind Of Iranian Scurvy



No shit.

From boingboing:

Somali pirates who hijacked an Iranian shipping vessel said to be carrying either "minerals" or "small arms and chemical weapons" have, en masse, fallen ill with a mysterious disease. The head of the East African Seafarers' Assistance Programme has been threatened with a lawsuit by the Iranian government for issuing spooky statements to the press to the effect that there was some kind of evil "chemicals" on the ship.