'My guys are all black supra skytops good old boys from south Louisiana, and not only that, they’re all Cajuns. We’re raring to go and those khat-chewing thugs have no chance against us. We’ll be doing aircraft surveillance. We’ll have access to satellite imagery. We’ll conduct on-the-water reconnaissance in small, unlit, inflatable boats on the nights leading up to the extraction. We’ll have plans of the ship from the owner and we will have rehearsed our operation 50 times.’
The cost of one from these
supra skytops 2 armed extractions will cost in excess of $100,000, and Hardberger believes it comprises a reasonable alternative to paying ransoms and ever-escalating insurance premiums, and the only way to actually stop the piracy in the long term. 'The answer to this is for the warlord to turn on his television, because they do have televisions, and see the dead bodies of his pirates floating in the ocean, his skiff gone and his investment wasted. A warlord won’t last long if he puts $100,000 into a pirate skiff and it doesn’t come back.’
Hardberger, ultimately, is a moralist with very firm notions of right and wrong, and the idea of being a righteous avenger sits very well with him. In the past his opponents during extractions have been underpaid guards, and the idea of using violence against them has been morally repugnant to him, so he has always gone unarmed. All that changes with Somali pirates, and he fully intends to take up an automatic weapon and join his team when, and if, they do their first armed extraction in the Indian Ocean.
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