# Pirate killed by private security guard of Somali coast

**URL:** https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/pirate-killed-by-private-security-guard-of-somali-coast/3754
**Category:** Homepage News
**Created:** [March 25, 2010, 3:31am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/pirate-killed-by-private-security-guard-of-somali-coast/3754 "2010-03-25T03:31:38Z")
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### Author: ![Mikey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/mikey/32/14_2.png) [@Mikey](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Mikey)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2010, 3:31am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/pirate-killed-by-private-security-guard-of-somali-coast/3754/1 "2010-03-25T03:31:38Z")

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![](http://www.vanityfair.com/images/politics/2007/02/poar01_junger0702.jpg)

In what could be the first incident of its kind, a Somali pirate was shot and killed by a private armed security guard on board a cargo ship off the coast of Somali… [Click HERE to read the full blog article.](http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/pirate-killed-private-security/)

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### Author: ![Jon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@Jon](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Jon)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2010, 5:35am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/pirate-killed-by-private-security-guard-of-somali-coast/3754/2 "2010-03-25T05:35:16Z")

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> Several organisations … have expressed concern that the use of armed security contractors could encourage pirates to be more violent when taking a ship.

You have got to be shitting me?!?

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### Author: ![steelbeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@steelbeach](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/steelbeach)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2010, 8:57am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/pirate-killed-by-private-security-guard-of-somali-coast/3754/3 "2010-03-27T08:57:18Z")

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These lads are only out for “social purposes”.  
Makes me think of the Dragon boat race at Vancouver . To put voice to the thinking of the current occupant of the white house.  
It would be a comedy if the truth wasn’t so scary.