Suspected pirates nabbed after skirmish with U.S. Navy ship

A group was captured Thursday, this group are suspected pirates. These pirates attacked the U.S. Sixth Fleet stationed in the Indian Ocean. USS Nicholas tells us that their ship received fire not long after midnight, they fired back, and soon took the skiff and its 3 passengers. They soon sunk the skiff, but first found ammunition and fuel aboard the skiff.

Not long after 2 more pirates were captured on a "mother ship". they have decided that for now they will keep their captives aboard the USS Nickolas until the pentagon decides what they will do with them. Right now they feel that they will be sent to Kenya to be tried, then go from there.

According to the USS Nickolas, based in Norfolk, Virginia as part of the U.S. military's Africa Command, the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean is a real hot spot for pirate attacks the last few years. They have had to add naval escorts and expanded monitoring, it's so bad. Just last week they had a brawl on the water, an attack broke out on a Panamanian-flagged cargo ship. It was so bad they needed to call in a European Union naval force to help out.

Wow, I didn't know that there were still pirates around. This is crazy. To the sound of it, there seems to be quite a few roaming around the ocean. I wonder why we don't hear more about these attacks. I almost feel that we need to inform more people about this, just to tell them that there are still pirates and to beware.