Pre-9/11 thinking: FBI to question US crew in criminal piracy probe.
yep, we’re gonna read ‘em their rights….as if they’re shoplifters at the Wal-Mart. Americans want Capt. Phillips alive and pirates dead. ARE WE CLEAR ?!
“If there were ever a U.S. victim of one of these attacks or a U.S. shipping line that were a victim, our Justice Department has said that it would favorably consider prosecuting such apprehended pirates,” Stephen Mull, the acting undersecretary of state for international security and arms control, told Congress last month.
Under U.S. law, crimes aboard U.S. ships or against U.S. citizens can be prosecuted in U.S. courts, even when they occur in international waters.
The FBI investigation is being run out of New York because the office there oversees cases involving U.S. citizens in Africa. Other field offices take the lead depending on where in the world the crime occurs.
The FBI has a legal attache at the U.S. Embassy in Kenya and has agents elsewhere in Africa to assist the investigation.
isn’t that special
