NYT: Interview with the pirate
What a great story. The New York Times's Jeffrey Gettleman gets the hijackers of the Ukrainian weapons ship on their sat phone and interviews them.
[The pirates' spokesman] said that so far, in the eyes of the world, the pirates had been misunderstood. “We don’t consider ourselves sea bandits,” he said. “We consider sea bandits those who illegally fish in our seas and dump waste in our seas and carry weapons in our seas. We are simply patrolling our seas. Think of us like a coast guard.”
