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Reporter's Preteen Daughter Gets Pirates to Talk

Crew being treated well: pirates, captain

By Ambreen Ali,  Newser User

Posted Nov 29, 2008 6:40 PM CST

(Newser) – After a BBC reporter failed to get Somali pirates on the phone, her 12-year-old daughter begged for a chance to call them. "Mummy, mummy," she said from the back seat of their car. "I want to phone the pirates." At the end of her rope, the frazzled mother agreed—and soon heard her girl giggling on the phone with pirates on-board the Sirius Star. The next day, the reporter told a BBC producer, who was inspired to call the pirates again.

“We have no life. Our last resource is the sea, and foreign trawlers are plundering our fish,” a pirate said when the BBC called. He added that the crew was in good shape. "They can move from place to place. They can sleep in their own beds, they even have their own keys. The only thing they're missing is their freedom to leave the ship."

Forces guard captured Somali pirates in Bassaso, Somalia last week.
Forces guard captured Somali pirates in Bassaso, Somalia last week.   (AP Photo)
A captured Somali pirate is seen here last week.
A captured Somali pirate is seen here last week.   (AP Photo)
In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the Liberian-flagged oil tanker MV Sirius Star is at anchor, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008 in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Somalia.
In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the Liberian-flagged oil tanker MV Sirius Star is at anchor, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008 in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Somalia.   (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Petty Officer 2nd Class William S. Stevens)
A reporter spoke to the pirates aboard the Liberian-flagged oil tanker Sirius Star.
A reporter spoke to the pirates aboard the Liberian-flagged oil tanker Sirius Star.   (AP Photo)
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Shannonals
Dec 3, 2008 3:18 AM CST
So, a 12 yr old can get an interview when an adult can't? Yeah, I wouldn't have admitted that

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