A Knife in a Gun Fight

This is hilarious! John Burtis details the recent attack by Somali pirates on 2 US Navy warships, with tongue-in-cheek:

...like a motley crew of a Gilligan-esque load of swashbucklers, replete with the Somali version of "Arrr, Jim," - "Arrr, Mohammed" - hollered above the sweet song of the stolen Evinrude 250 outboard motors, which echoed off the other dhows floating at their slips in the basin, they set to sea looking for fresh ships to seize.
Steeped in the classical view of pirates, they looked the part. The captain, Muhammed, wore an eye patch and brandished both a dirk and a Walther PP. Kareem, the first mate, sported a faded blue bandanna and wore a short sword in addition to his Tokarev 9mm pistol, just as Anwar carried an AK-54, wore dirty white clam diggers and a t-shirt with a large skull and bones emblazoned across the chest.

Please read the whole thing. A hoot!