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Mountain Eagle could tell that Kadite wasn’t particularly convinced about the hijacking of the cruise ship, as such incidents hadn’t occurred internationally for many years.
Despite the rampant piracy in seas around the world, pirates too evolve with the times.
Robbing cargo ships and oil tankers presents less risk, higher profit, and lighter consequences compared to robbing cruise ships.
Moreover, cruise ships are complicated due to territorial jurisdiction issues and the problem of hostages; mishandling the situation could lead to involvement by major powers.
When you rob a cargo ship or oil tanker, the goods can be quickly liquidated for cash, and one can then negotiate with the ship owners and insurance companies using the valuable vessel to obtain even more money.
The profits are exorbitantly high, facing few challengers.
It’s different with cruise ships. Besides the ship owners and insurance companies, the vast network of friends and families behind the thousands of hostages can easily stir significant public outrage.
Never mind getting the money; even if you manage to obtain it temporarily, the disgraced major powers would ensure you never rest in peace again.
Global manhunts are just the beginning; ship companies, insurance companies, families of the victimized hostages, various business associations and enterprise alliances, civilian NGOs – these people could collect money and take you down.
In the past 80 years, the only recorded cruise ship hijacking cases in the world were done by the S and Palestinian organizations, which were both politically motivated, with only the Palestinian attacks leading to casualties.
It’s not that the pirates lacked the capability, but hijacking a cruise ship put them on the path toward becoming enemies of humanity, which would be too grave a consequence for them to face.