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2009-04-12 Africa Horn

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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-04-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 $30 mil/2000 is only $15,000 each, that's barely minimum wage. Let's jack up those ransom payments so these poor workers can make a living wage.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2009-04-12 08:56|| 2009-04-12 08:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Quit feeding them and won't have tyo worry about American aid ships getting hijacked.

Posted by ed 2009-04-12 10:39|| 2009-04-12 10:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Fifteen thousand in Somalia is the equivalent of $250,000 in the US - a small fortune. They also don't pay taxes, and have little overhead other than gas for their boat and shells for their Kalashnikovs.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-04-12 13:15|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-04-12 13:15|| Front Page Top

#4 It's booming cause there's little downside. When this happened two hundred years ago, the Europeans did nothing (except pay ransom and protection money). It took the President of a small country called the United States and an American naval commander named Stephen Decatur to put an end to the depredations of the pirates.

Our navy is certainly up for the task, is Obama?

Posted by DMFD 2009-04-12 14:08|| 2009-04-12 14:08|| Front Page Top

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