Pirates Drown While Taking Booty

Somali pirates who hijacked a Saudi supertanker and received a $3 million ransom for it should have been happy with their haul. However, as they hauled it away, their boat capsized and they drowned.

Pirate Daud Nure says the boat with eight people on board overturned in a storm after dozens of pirates left the Sirius Star following a two-month standoff in the Gulf of Aden that ended Friday.

He said five people died and three people reached shore after swimming for several hours. Daud Nure was not part of the pirate operation but knew those involved.

AL QAEDA PLANNING HUGE ATTACK FOR OBAMA

From World Threats, it's reported that al Qaeda is in stages of development for a major attack to greet President Obama.

If this is true, it goes along with one of my earlier thoughts. Al Qaeda and America's enemies have had a history of testing our new leaders, and we now have one who is very untested.

Al Qaeda is planning to get us involved in Africa. This will do one of two things. One, it's one of their main bases and they're counting on our fear of intervention (especially in Africa) to either keep us out or force us out later. Second, it could be a ploy, to divert resources from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Waziristan. Neither are good options.

Our Ethiopian allies and some AU nations have peacekeepers in Somalia, but it would appear that if we can't get our allies to contribute to ISAF, how many troops can we get for Somalia? Obama's mettle will be tested, like Joe Biden predicted, and we'll see if his spine--and ours-- are made of steel.

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