{"id":336,"date":"2008-12-05T05:33:27","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T05:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=336"},"modified":"2008-12-05T05:33:27","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T05:33:27","slug":"danish_warship_rescues_pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"Danish Warship Rescues Pirates Then Sinks Their Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601116&amp;sid=aps3FfNMXcEk\">Bloomberg.com<\/a>&nbsp;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.&nbsp; OK.&nbsp; According to international law, ships are required to help people who are &#8216;distressed&#8217; at sea.&nbsp; These pirates could not be directly connected to any criminal act, so they were rescued and turned over to Yemeni officials.&nbsp; (I have no idea how helpful Yemeni officials are in dealing with piracy.)&nbsp; Because of weather conditions, it was impossible to tow the distressed vessel, so they sank it.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>According to TV reports, the Danish warship confiscated the weapons aboard the pirates ship.&nbsp; The weapons included anti-tank rockets and machine guns,&nbsp; (It&#8217;s obvious that they were only out for a Sunday sail).&nbsp;&nbsp;The pirates had been adrift at sea for seven days, the last three days without food or water, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg.com&nbsp;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.&nbsp; OK.&nbsp; According to international law, ships are required to help &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=336\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}