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PARIS (Reuters) - France intercepted 11 suspected Somali pirates on Sunday after they mistook a French naval ship for a commercial vessel and started heading toward it in preparation for an attack, a Defense Ministry spokesman said.

[It's going to be really hard for me to take pirates seriously from now on. It would surprise me if they could get any more incompetent. The boat has a GIANT GUN on the front. How could they mistake this:
For this:
Anyways, onto the rest of the story.]

Heavily-armed* Somali pirates have stepped up their attacks on vessels in Indian Ocean shipping lanes and the Gulf of Aden, capturing dozens of vessels, kidnapping hundreds of hostages and raking in millions of dollars in ransoms.[I suggest: Read this as good fiction. The numbers aren't acurate. They are made up to make good story.]

The French navy seized the suspected pirates, who were in three small boats, 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) off the coast of Somalia in the Indian Ocean.

“They confused the Nivose with a commercial ship and rushed toward it, to intercept it,” the spokesman said.

“The Nivose then put its own craft in the water with its commandos and sent out a helicopter and stopped these 11 pirates who were on these three boats.”

Two were small boats which the pirates use for attacks and the third was the mother ship which is used to transport supplies such as petrol, water and food.

The commandos also found guns and rockets on the boats. [The French have Commandos? Footnote needed.]

“The pirates are currently on the Nivose,” he said.

“For the moment we don’t have any indication of what the European Union forces want to do with these pirates.” [They won't imprison them, they won't execute them. Euros are sissies. I say give 'em the traditional punishment: Hang 'em. Hang 'em all!]

A French naval patrol seized three more pirates in Seychelles’ waters on Saturday and handed them over to the coastguard, the islands’ president’s office said.

The attacks have disrupted U.N. aid supplies, driven up insurance costs and forced some firms to consider routing cargo between Europe and Asia around South Africa instead.

Naval forces from the United States, Europe and Asia have been deployed to protect merchant ships.

*Pirates may or may not have had heavy arms. Nicknamed skinnies, the pirates probably had small arms. Heavy arms makes for a better article and this is just a legal disclaimer that you really don't need to bother reading** but if you continue I would just go on to tell you that this blog takes no responsibility for any misinformation that may come from it. That is to say, you are the sole decision maker in your life. I am merely (Oatmeal Raisin Cookies) here (Delicious) to (gooy) make (oatmeal filled) suggestions (warm) and it is your (just out of the oven) responsibility to decide on which (home baked cookies) news stories to believe.

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