Courtesy of Glen “Instapundit” Reynolds:

Indian navy captures ‘pirate mothership’

• AFP
  February 06, 2011
  8:24PMTHE Indian navy and coastguard has
  captured a suspected pirate “mothership” and detained more than 50
  people after a firefight off southwestern India, the defence ministry
  says.

  M. Nambiar said but was unable to specify the numbers of suspected
  pirates and rescued hostages, nor could he give their nationalities.

  All
  were found on board a Thai fishing vessel that had been hijacked up to
  six months ago off the coast of Somalia and is thought to have since
  been used as a floating base to mount attacks on shipping, a ministry
  statement added.

Here’s to a short trial and a long drop on a short rope.