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2008-11-22 Africa Horn

Battles over booty loom as militias and rebels drawn to pirate gold

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Posted by john frum 2008-11-22 09:44|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 well, if they have a drawn-out fight, we could help settle it. With an Arclight run! Drink up, me hearty's!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-11-22 10:02|| 2008-11-22 10:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh, this is rich. Terrorists take out the pirates, and Indians with balls take out the terrorists. Should we bring out the popcorn machine?

Posted by gorb 2008-11-22 10:03|| 2008-11-22 10:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Order the fine ale now!
Also, lots of predators with the cams fed into the web.... Pay per view!

Imagine what the Saudi ship owners would pay to watch a live feed of the land shark feeding frenzy....

Posted by 3dc 2008-11-22 10:37|| 2008-11-22 10:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Who says the poor won't work or that socialism is the only way out of poverty? /sarcasm off

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-11-22 10:47|| 2008-11-22 10:47|| Front Page Top

#5 The only sh*tty part is that the crew will be in the middle of all this and probably much the worse for wear. At some point you have to weigh the lives of all the hostages currently being held against the possibility of having to live with pirates for a long time. We've probably got some very tough decisions to make in the near future.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-11-22 11:35|| 2008-11-22 11:35|| Front Page Top

#6 I dunno, I'm just moping around because the Islamic Courts "government" is gone - yet another casualty of the arrogant cowboy war-mongering tendencies of CheneyMcBushHitlerBurton.

To borrow one (which I've always believed apocryphal) from Chou en Lai, as told to Kissinger, re what he thought of the French Revolution's impact: "it's too early to tell" whether knocking off Islamic Courts was a bad move. I'm still good with it.

Posted by Verlaine 2008-11-22 12:50|| 2008-11-22 12:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Fears that the booty could end up in the hands of Islamist extremists, despite their long opposition to piracy

Is this The Onion? Someone pulling my leg?

Posted by remoteman 2008-11-22 13:30|| 2008-11-22 13:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Somalia is becoming the MOAS. The Mother of All Sh*tholes. Any volunteers for nation building?

Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-11-22 14:20|| 2008-11-22 14:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, AP, as I was saying yesterday, it has what appears to me anyway, a much more strategic location than Afghanistan. And with that long coastline on the Indian Ocean there must be some fairly decent surfing beaches.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2008-11-22 15:55|| 2008-11-22 15:55|| Front Page Top

#10 Unfortunately the coastline of Somalia has a really bad shark problem - much worse than that of Australia. Plus there are no functioning water systems and the type of parasites that are waterborne there are frightening.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2008-11-22 17:06|| 2008-11-22 17:06|| Front Page Top

#11 And with that long coastline on the Indian Ocean there must be some fairly decent surfing beaches.

Abu don't surf!

Posted by Col. Kilgore 2008-11-22 17:40|| 2008-11-22 17:40|| Front Page Top

#12 big jim they will just blame the crew being killed on the US . so don't worry about them

Posted by chris 2008-11-22 18:32|| 2008-11-22 18:32|| Front Page Top

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