Chapter 453: Jiang Hao's attitude
Jiang Hao looked at the news and silently recalled the information of the Somali sailors in his mind. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 The Somali Sailors Organization is the largest pirate organization in the Somali region, with a tight organizational structure, fully militarized management, and a great deal of discipline among its personnel. However, most of its members are brutal, and although they have strong discipline, they are a pirate organization after all, so their members are cruel. Somali sailors and pirates operate extensively, extending more than 200 nautical miles from the coastline to the sea. But Somali sailors generally do not attack the ships of large powers, after all, no major country is easy to mess with, but there are exceptions, but the requirements are not very excessive.
The Somali Sailors first mistreated the hostages and ships after they tried to take them, demanding a high ransom from the abducted party, and if the ransom was not paid on time, its personnel would kill the hostages without mercy. The group is most famous for its most famous hijackings in 2001, when a group of Somali sailors hijacked a passing U.S. freighter and demanded that the U.S. government pay a ransom of up to $10 million within 10 days. If the organization does not receive the ransom after 10 days, the hostage torture begins. At that time, the U.S. government sent four Navy SEAL squadrons with nearly 150 Navy SEAL members.
At that time, the U.S. government did not even think of negotiating a deal with the Somali sailors, but hoped to directly rescue the hostages through strong means, or force the Somali sailors to release them. However, what the US government never expected was that nearly 150 members of the four Navy SEAL squadrons were not successfully rescued.
During the hostage rescue by the Navy SEALs, they met with fierce resistance from Somali sailors. The members of the Somali Sailors are also perennial combatants, and their combat effectiveness is quite strong, no worse than that of some regular soldiers. So the SEAL rescue operation did not achieve the desired effect at all, and the U.S. government had to pay some big price for it.
The SEALs' rescue operation failed, not only losing nearly 70 people, but also starting the next day with Somali sailors shooting hostages. The U.S. government had no choice but to compromise. Because they only accepted cash, the U.S. government had to use helicopters to carry 15 million dollars in cash and throw it to the Somali Sailors, who finally received a ransom of $15 million, but four hostages were lost.
The U.S. government did not fail to attack the Somali sailors, but many attempts ended in failure, and in the end, the U.S. government provided escorts for cargo ships that had to pass through the area, which was considered to have slightly curbed the actions of the Somali sailors.
Somali sailors not only raid U.S. ships passing through the area, but ships from other countries pass through the area, and under normal circumstances, they will take action. Of course, the Somali sailors are targeting the larger ships. In fact, the Republic has had incidents of cargo ships being hijacked before, and since the US government has learned from the past, the country has used money to buy peace. The state doesn't dare to joke with ordinary lives, so the only way to ransom people is to take money.
Jiang Hao was very confused about the large-scale report of this pirate hijacking from above, and he knew that if the pirate hijacking incident could not be solved well, then it would easily cause a crisis of confidence in the government, and he didn't know why the top would make such a thing public.
Jiang Hao continued to pull the webpage of the news network, and the international news section also released a similar news as the previous one. Jiang Hao paid attention to the first publication time of this news, and Jiang Hao found that this news was in the morning, while the news of Xinhua News Agency was at noon. That is, the Somali sailors have announced to the world their actions following the hijacking of the ship of the Republic.
It seems that the whole world has already known about the next ship hijacking incident, and it is estimated that the eyes of the whole world are now focused on the Republic to see how the Republic will solve this ship hijacking incident. Jiang Hao believes that at this time, not only a large number of foreign eyes are gathered here, but also the eyes of ordinary people in China are also paying attention to the outcome of this incident.
Jiang Hao didn't know the plan above, whether he would still take the ransom money to ransom people as before, or send special forces to rescue the hostages at one time. This is not something that Jiang Hao cares about, but this does not prevent Jiang Hao from following up to express his attitude towards this incident. Moreover, Jiang Hao was very skeptical about this incident, after all, the Republic is also a big country, and there is no reason for the Somali sailors to hijack the ships of the Republic. And even if they demanded a ransom of up to $100 million after hijacking the cruise ship, wouldn't they be afraid of retaliation from the republic afterwards? What Jiang Hao thinks of the hijacking of the ship of the Republic by the Somali sailors is strange, but Jiang Hao can't think of the reason for it for a while.
Jiang Hao thought about this hijacking incident, but picked up the phone in his hand and dialed a private number, and the phone was quickly connected, and a thick voice came from the other end of the phone.
"Hello Comrade Jiang Hao, is there anything to call at this time?"
"Hello chief, I don't know what the chief thinks about the hijacking of my country's steamer?" Jiang Hao was not polite, and directly asked what he wanted to know.
"Now I'm discussing with the other chiefs how to safely resolve this hijacking. What, what does Comrade Jiang Hao think?"
"Well, that's a bit of an idea. For me, I certainly hope to be able to eliminate them. But I don't know what the outcome of your discussions will be? Is it still like in 2002, with $100 million to redeem the crew members who were kidnapped by their families?"
"There is this intention, although this seems that the state is very weak, but for the sake of the safety of the hostages, the state has to do this, after all, the state must first protect the lives of the hostages, so that they can do other things later. Otherwise, we will be passive. ”
"Chief, I think we have to teach them a lesson this time anyway, if we give in easily this time, maybe they think we are easy to bully, maybe it will become a big problem in the future. ”
"But the current international situation does not allow us to send large-scale combat troops at all, which could easily lead to war. As you know, the country's current position in the international arena is likely to cause some countries to make a move. And this is a long-range operation, and we are running out of time. They only gave us ten days, and even if we were willing to go out into action, it would be too late. (To be continued.) )