Not getting away with it this time

The Washington Post has the story:

The U.S. Navy bolstered its force of warships off Somalia on Monday, intensifying its watch over Somali pirates holding a hijacked Ukrainian-operated vessel with crew members, arms and tanks aboard. Lieutenant Nathan Christensen, a spokesman for the 5th Fleet, said "there are now several U.S. ships" within eyesight of the hijacked ship, Faina, which according to the Kenyan government was bound for Kenya when it was seized last week. The pirates are negotiating for ransom with the vessel's owner.
Speaking by telephone from Bahrain, Christensen declined to say how exactly many other US warships had joined the USS Howard, a guided-missile destroyer, off Somalia. The U.S. ships were staying in international waters off Somalia, Christensen said, while the Somali pirates kept the Faina within the 12-mile territorial bounds of Somali waters. US sailors remained close enough to see the ship, and had established bridge-to-bridge contact via radio, he said.
Pirates have anchored the hijacked vessel a few miles off the Somali town of Hobyo.
The Navy intends to maintain "a vigilant, visual watch of the ship" to make sure pirates don't try to unload the tanks, ammunition, and other arms aboard, Christensen said.
Somali pirates have launched what the International Maritime Bureau calls the biggest surge of piracy on modern record, attacking more than 60 vessels this year off Somalia and in the adjoining Gulf of Aden. The Gulf of Aden, which connects the Indian Ocean to the Suez Canal, is the main shipping route between Asia and the Middle East to Europe.

Rico says he can hardly wait for the video when the Russians show up, or they try and unload the Faina... (You want piracy? Rico says he'll give you piracy, and a great resolution to it as well: Skeleton Cay.)