Sunday, January 11, 2009

Pirate's body washes ashore with $153,000

Five pirates drowned Friday when their small boat capsized after they received a reported $3 million ransom for releasing a Saudi oil tanker. A local resident said that one of the pirate's body washed up on the shore, and in his pocket was a plastic bag containing $153,000. The pirates had been holding a Ukrainian arms ship and it's crew hostage. A spokesman for the group of pirates holding the ship and crew for ransom has said that they will release them soon, and because of good negotiations; may lower the ransom.