The teenager's arrival came on the same day that his mother appealed to President Barack Obama for his release. She says her son was coaxed into piracy by "gangsters with money." "I appeal to President Obama to pardon my teenager; I request him to release my son or at least allow me to see him and be with him during the trial," Adar Abdirahman Hassan said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from her home in Galka'yo town in Somalia. Awe, ain't that just like dear old mom? We hear this shit all the time from the mom of some gang banging thug...but he's a good boy. Sorry Ma', you're kid is a f'n thug and should be dead already.
Complete utter waste of resources - 20 agents/police escorting a shackled teenager - dont they have anything better to do!
I see the mainstream media has already jumped to this pirate's defense. I was listening to ABC radio and he is now a 16 year old "youth" and anyway plenty of other pirates were just let go, so why are we being so harsh? Makes you want to puke.
Actually, COWARDS and PUSSIES like you make a lot of people on this site want to "puke" . . . http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=160732&perpage=6&pagenumber=3
The heroic Pirate is brave enough to confront and rob with a gun but when brought to court the brave warrior cried. Somali pirate's smile turns to tears; charged with crimes that could send him to jail for life
Life's a Bitch. But "AAA" is my BIATCH! http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=160732&perpage=6&pagenumber=3
======================= Noteworthy points, Merc. And hope the young trader who posted past 7 months, thinking its so cool to be a pirate; now rethinks his risk reward ratio
Your Walter Mitty fantasies are getting out of control. As I said, there's nothing wrong with being a mall cop. It's important work and a good job for someone with your obvious limits.
Too date, the coward with >10,500 posts on ET has refused to answer the simplest of questions: 1.) Do you trade for a living? 2.) Where did you go to college, and if so, did you graduate and with what degree? 3.) Given how critical you were of how Obama handled the successful rescue of Captain Richard Phillips from Somali pirates, in which you called him "Weak, Weak, Weak . . . " what would have been your solution, Genius? http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2389411&highlight=genius#post2389411 Like I have said before . . . YOU ARE A PUSSY that has a grandiose sense of self. Essentially laughable and as meaningless and decrepit as Dick Cheney.