USS Nicholas At Indian Ocean, What to do with them?
By admin on April 2, 2010 / News and Society
USS Nicholas At Indian Ocean, What to do with them?. The USS Nicholas captured pirates off the coast of Somalia Thursday after a dramatic exchange of gunfire and the sinking of the pirates’ small boat.
The USS Nicholas, a guided missile frigate, was steaming west of the Seychelles islands in the Indian Ocean when it began taking small-arms fire from a pirate skiff early Thursday. The frigate fired back and pursued the skiff until it stopped, and sailors apprehended three pirates. Later, the Nicholas confiscated the pirates’ mother ship nearby and arrested two more individuals, according to officials with the US Navy’s Sixth Fleet.
A statement that was issued by the Sixth U.S. Fleet reveals that the U.S. Navy’s frigate was cruising through the Indian Ocean at around Thursday midnight (local time) when some fires were shot in the direction of USS Nicholas described as class frigate ‘Oliver Hazard Perry.’ This Naval Ship is component of Military’s U.S. African Command.
The statement was released on the Web site of Department of Defense U.S. and it further briefed that the following the shot, the USS Nicholas responded immediately with returned fires that eventually led to the arrest of vessel and personnel aboard, the suspected pirates. It appears from the statement in question that overall five arrests were made.
The vessel under the use of the pirates subsequently sank at around 3 a.m. local time when Nicholas successfully pursued and eventually disabled it but not before taking into the custody its three numbers riders. Meanwhile, it has also been learned that at least two persons were held by the Nicholas’ boarding team when they also confiscated a ship described as ‘mother ship.’ The team also claimed to discover large quantity of fuel cans as well as ammunition from the two ships.
The five suspected pirates are being held aboard the U.S.S. Nicholas until a determination can be made as to what to do with them. There is an agreement with Kenya, in which pirates can be tried there (as Somalia’s government is poorly functioning). If there is enough evidence on the pirates, they will likely be turned over to the Kenyan courts.
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