{"id":14950,"date":"2009-10-08T07:46:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T12:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14950"},"modified":"2009-10-08T07:46:12","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T12:46:12","slug":"french-navy-fights-off-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14950","title":{"rendered":"French navy fights off pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sporkmaster reminded me <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20091007\/wl_africa_afp\/somaliapiracyshippingfrance_20091007151820\">of this story the other day<\/a> in which the French Navy actually closed with and captured some Somali pirates;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The crew of La Somme, a 160-metre (525-foot) command vessel and fuel tanker, easily saw off the brazen night-time assault by lightly armed fighters on two lightweight skiffs and captured five pirates, a spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The pirates, who because of the darkness took the French ship for a commercial vessel, were on board two vessels and opened fire with Kalashnikovs,&#8221; Admiral Christophe Prazuck said in Paris.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad to see the French finally overcoming their notorious image of being &#8220;cheese-eating surrender monkeys&#8221; (as described by famous military historian, Homer Simpson) and I&#8217;ll do anything I can to promote this new image &#8211; as long as they keep it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sporkmaster reminded me of this story the other day in which the French Navy actually closed &hellip; <a title=\"French navy fights off pirates\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14950\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">French navy fights off pirates<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}