Bloomberg.com has an article this morning about a Danish warship that answered a distress call in the Gulf of Yemen, rescued what are probably Somali pirates, and then sank their ship. OK. According to international law, ships are required to help people who are 'distressed' at sea. These pirates could not be directly connected to any criminal act, so they were rescued and turned over to Yemeni officials. (I have no idea how helpful Yemeni officials are in dealing with piracy.) Because of weather conditions, it was impossible to tow the distressed vessel, so they sank it.
According to TV reports, the Danish warship confiscated the weapons aboard the pirates ship. The weapons included anti-tank rockets and machine guns, (It's obvious that they were only out for a Sunday sail). The pirates had been adrift at sea for seven days, the last three days without food or water,
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