Quote Originally Posted by Schmedlap View Post
Blackwater Plans Effort Against Piracy

Looks like Blackwater intends to send these Corsairs to Davy Jones' locker. Perhaps the real booty is in the contract, not the hijack.
And if the booty is anything like this article describes, the Corsairs will come fit with guns and lawyers, and a meager link to Barclay's (bank)

... such operations cost about $1m, not including the ransom.

...the ship-owners hire professionals, from specialist negotiators to private security firms, to transfer the ransoms.

"The professional negotiators, acting on behalf of the ship owners, get about $100,000 for their services and the lawyers receive a fee of about $300,000 for ensuring that the shipping companies are not putting themselves in any dubious positions," he explains.