Pirates who hijacked a Japanese tanker off Somalia earlier this week are demanding a U.S. warship shadowing the vessel back off, the wife of the tanker's foreman said Friday.
"Apparently the navy ship was getting closer to them," Tess Villanueva, wife of the crew's foreman, Laureano, told The Associated Press in the Philippines. "The good news would be if they (pirates) leave the ship."
No shit eh? You mean to tell me they don't like having a ship from the worlds most advanced Navy following them and making sure they don't get away? Say it ain't so! Pretty soon you'll start seeing Al-Qaeda members asking US soldiers to back off because they don't like it when the fight comes to their front door.
If they don't like the US Navy following them, then perhaps they should have thought about that before they tried to hijack the Japanese ship.
"You'll always find our Navy prepared to help any ship in distress and certainly any ship that is confronting pirates," said Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, the top American envoy to six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear disarmament.
We aim to please.
Travis
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