The pirates allegedly aborted the attack when warning shots were fired by the tankers' security guards.
In the afternoon of Feb. 15, 2012, two impoverished fishermen, returning to the Kerala coast from an exhausting fishing expedition, were shot dead by two Italian marines who were guarding an oil tanker, the Enrica Lexie, on suspicion that the fishermen were pirates.
Abu Musa, the largest of the three, was used by Iranian revolutionary guards to stage attacks on oil tankers during the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88.
How did they do that aerial shot of the explosion of the tanker that torched the security guard?
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, in Gereshk District, and said it killed 33 security guards and burned 17 vehicles, mostly fuel tankers.
The two marines, Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone, are accused of killing the fishermen off the coast of the southern Indian state of Kerala in February 2012, while on duty guarding an Italian oil tanker from pirates.
The marines were guarding an Italian oil tanker off India's south-western coast when the incident occurred.
"It was me who told them about the decision to return them to India, I looked them in the eyes and told them". The marines had been guarding an Italian oil tanker when they killed the fishermen last year.
As for the Jessica itself, the Ecuadorean Navy and advisers from the United States Coast Guard eventually gave up on efforts to right the tanker, after several attempts failed.
In Hebron, Israeli officials said a Palestinian gunman was killed after he fired on a fuel tanker protected by an armed civilian security guard.
