Pirates sending reinforcemetns?

Bloomberg:

Somali pirates are sending help to members of their band who hijacked a U.S.-flagged ship this week in the Indian Ocean and are holding the captain hostage, said a member of the group who spoke from shore.

The man, who called himself Da’ud and identified himself as one of the pirates, spoke by phone yesterday from the area of Eyl, Somalia. He said he had been in contact with the four pirates who boarded the Maersk Alabama and who then took the captain hostage on a lifeboat that has stalled off the coast.

Any new pirates arriving at the scene will be confronted by the destroyer USS Bainbridge, which has moved into the area and is getting images fed to it from a drone flying over the lifeboat, an American official said. A second warship, the frigate USS Halyburton, is en route, a U.S. official said.

“We sent reinforcement men to help them,” said Da’ud, who declined to give his full name. The reinforcing pirates are in two groups, one of which was already at sea, he said.

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This should be an opportunity to blow them out of the water. Hopefully the Navy will be permitted to do so. It does give one reason for the addition ships being sent by the US although I think the Navy choppers should be able to destroy these guys.