Notice the shortage of handwringing

Somali pirates take over a Russian oil tanker. The Russians storm the ship, shoot and kill one of the pirates and capture the other 10 pirates. Rather than take them back to Moscow for prosecution they dumped the 10 pirates into an inflatable raft and set them adrift in the Indian Ocean.

“It seems that they all died,” the unnamed source was quoted as saying by Russia’s Interfax news agency.

Who knows, they may have even pointed them in the direction of land. Perhaps Antarctica.

When the only good pirate is a dead one

A (mainly) blogosphere wrap-up of the pirate thingy.