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2008-12-19 Africa Horn

Mercenary Guards Jump Ship as Somali Pirates Remain Undeterred

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Posted by Fred 2008-12-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Pirates

#1 ...the guards are prompting concern that they will provoke violence because some carry weapons.

Oh, Heaven forfend! So pirates storming a ship with AK's and RPG's aren't already acting violent? Who the hell writes this crap?

Posted by PBMcL 2008-12-19 00:21|| 2008-12-19 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Who the hell writes this crap?

Spineless liberal weenies, but I am being redundant.

Posted by One Eyed Phugum1432 2008-12-19 01:14|| 2008-12-19 01:14|| Front Page Top

#3 They can hire me to protect shipping . Sounds like a whole lotta fun , as long as I'm armed ..

$2000 a day should do it .

Sonic weapons - I almost lol'ed

severe risk of escalation - I almost lol'ed - Who the hell are these people .... *gasp*

Posted by Snailing Brown5984 2008-12-19 07:12|| 2008-12-19 07:12|| Front Page Top

#4 I bet they belong to that UK firm that "Specilized" in non-lethal force. Sounds like a nerf gun defense.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2008-12-19 07:53|| 2008-12-19 07:53|| Front Page Top

#5 I'll bet they would have done better with this Nerf Gun:

Nerf N-Strike Vulcan EBF-25 Blaster - Yellow
3 rounds per second, belt-fed!

Posted by SamIII">SamIII 2008-12-19 08:15|| 2008-12-19 08:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Put 3 ex-navy SEALs on there with only a cigarette lighter and I guarantee that the pirates would come out on the worse end of that arrangement.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-12-19 10:16|| 2008-12-19 10:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Surrender when the pirates show up, then when they come alongside you hit them with the flame thrower, or moltovs into their boats. They dont tend to have large enough numbers to have some pirates stand off and firing and RPG at close range will probably kill the person holding the RPG and his friends.

And the cruel and inhumane part of burning them alive, well that's a feature, not a bug.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-12-19 11:56|| 2008-12-19 11:56|| Front Page Top

#8 what is it with them always wanting too use sound devices against armed men ? I would think a bullet hurts a helluva alot worse than that big ass horn

Posted by rabid whitetail 2008-12-19 12:00|| 2008-12-19 12:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Unfortunate byproduct of having children grow up watching the Smurfs. Send them the entire Roadrunner-Coyote collection.

Posted by ed 2008-12-19 12:39|| 2008-12-19 12:39|| Front Page Top

#10 Put 3 ex-navy SEALs on there with only a cigarette lighter and I guarantee that the pirates would come out on the worse end of that arrangement.

I suspect they'd end up jumping ship as well. Military guys stateside end up getting knocked off by gangsters all the time. Heck, a special forces team along with some Afghan platoons going up against the Taliban almost got wiped out while trying to get away. And they had light weapons, grenades, air support and motor vehicles to get away.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2008-12-19 13:19|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2008-12-19 13:19|| Front Page Top

#11 sounds like 2 sets of pirates, only one of which took valuables with weapons.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2008-12-19 13:27|| 2008-12-19 13:27|| Front Page Top

#12 right, Zhang. Cowards,the lot.

Posted by Gerthudion Omoting8757 2008-12-19 14:15|| 2008-12-19 14:15|| Front Page Top

#13 I suspect that Zhang is pointing out that numbers count even against the best.

Posted by .5MT 2008-12-19 15:39|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-12-19 15:39|| Front Page Top

#14 sonic weapons OK? Use a M-16. You can hear the shot just after it pierces your body

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-12-19 17:09|| 2008-12-19 17:09|| Front Page Top

#15 I hope the mercenaries clocked out before the end of their shift....or were they paid in advance?

Posted by Muggsy Glink 2008-12-19 22:24|| 2008-12-19 22:24|| Front Page Top

#16 The article as shown below leaves out some good tidbits.
"In addition to increasing the possibility of violence, armed guards on ships carry legal risks, said John Kimball, a maritime law expert at Blank Rome in New York.

A warship from any sovereign nation has the right under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea to kill pirates in international waters. But when a private security firm does it, you are in a gray area, he said. Putting a security force on a ship raises all sorts of issues I think that ship-owners should want to avoid.""
See also:
http://www.maritimeaccident.org/arming-ships-the-blackwater-factor/

Posted by Jaique Johnson2117 2008-12-19 23:16|| 2008-12-19 23:16|| Front Page Top

#17 Wow!
I guess the "legitimate government of ~~Somalia~~ ~~Puntland~~ ~~EastShitholeia~~ Pirateland" would have to lay claim to the homegrown miscreants and their supposed abuse? Nice try, Jaique.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-12-19 23:26|| 2008-12-19 23:26|| Front Page Top

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