On Monday CNN reported that two pirates in Somalia are vowing revenge for the actions taken by U.S. and French forces in recuing hostages.
The pirates told a Somali journalist on Monday that they were angered by the actions of both the U.S. and the French in rescuing their respective citizens.
“We have decided to kill U.S. and French sailors if they happen to be among our future hostages,” said Abdullahi Ahmed, who is a member of a pirate group based in the coastal town Harardhere, in central Somalia.
The threats of violence come from the recent rescue in of the American Captain Richard Phillips and four French hostages taken by Somali pirates this past week. Both rescue operations ended with a total of five slain Somali pirates, three pirates captured by French forces and one in US custody.
President Obama has praised the word of the US forces to free Phillips from his captors, while saying that the U.S. will confront pirates and hold them “accountable for their crimes”, as reported on CNN.com.
US and French sailors won’t be the only groups targeted by the pirates. In an interview with Ali Nur, a pirate based in Gara’ad, a coastal village in Puntland, in northern Somalia, Nur stated that the effects will carry on to U.S. and French citizens.
“From now on, after the killings by the U.S. and France, we will add some harsher steps in our dealings with hostages, particularly with American and French hostages,” Nur told a journalist.
In a warning issued to the United States Nur called the actions of the Navy “aggression” and told the U.S. that they “will see what they get from their operation”.
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I can't believe that these pirates are doing anything other than blowing smoke. There is no way those criminals could extract any revenge on the United States.
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