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2009-04-23 Africa Horn

Somali pirate to stand trial as adult in US

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Posted by Fred 2009-04-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top
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#1 I hope the bailiffs x-ray that bandage every time he shows up in court.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-04-23 08:28|| 2009-04-23 08:28|| Front Page Top

#2 "I understand. I don't have any money."

Ooo but I almost had a whole bunch of money!

Posted by flash91 2009-04-23 11:14|| 2009-04-23 11:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Wait until the left makes him a "cause-celebre". The tip jar at Daily Kos and Puffington Host will be overflowing.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2009-04-23 11:17|| 2009-04-23 11:17|| Front Page Top

#4 She also said she was looking into whether the Geneva Convention, which governs the treatment of war captives, applies in this case since Somalia is engaged in civil war.

Another "person" confused about what the Geneva Conventions are all about, and how and where they apply. He was NOT acting as a combattant when trying to capture the Mearsk Alabama - he was acting as a pirate, a kidnapper, and an extortionist. The Geneva Conventions apply to nations at war with other nations, not to any group of hairy, arrogant morons with a weapon.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-04-23 12:30|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-04-23 12:30|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm a dumbo but... why the hell is this guy in the US?

What good can possibly come of having this guy on trial in the US?

Posted by Dumbo acting dumb 2009-04-23 13:57|| 2009-04-23 13:57|| Front Page Top

#6 I (almost) find this problematic. Here's a teenager growing up in an environment where he possibly never had a decent chance to comprehend that what he was doing was a "crime against all nations".

A little less dramatism here, please. That boy grows up with a bunch of people and he does what everyone does. He's growing up in a place where nothing of the moral values that a 16yo American boy would be accustomed to applies. Thousands of boy soldiers in Africa are in the same position.

I could see other people better suited to be made an example of.

When in fight throw those pirates into the sea, fair enough. But transporting teenage boys to the U.S. for a trial and subsequently spending a million dollars on his possible life incarceration is a waste of time and money.

And no deterrent. Pirates know they risk their life any minute. You think that "don't do this or you will be sent to a US jail" will make a difference?

The average U.S. jail will be better than the average life in Somalia.

Sorry, the current strategy doesn't work. That's not how you fight piracy. You need to wipe out their bases on firm land, Tortuga or Somalia.

Everything else is a waste of time and money.

Posted by European Conservative 2009-04-23 14:50|| 2009-04-23 14:50|| Front Page Top

#7 "Everything ~~else~~ is a waste of time and money."

That pretty much sums up the Bambi adminstration, EC. :-(

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-04-23 16:00|| 2009-04-23 16:00|| Front Page Top

#8 But transporting teenage boys to the U.S. for a trial and subsequently spending a million dollars

I'll consider us very lucky if we end up spending only a million on this circus of a trial.

Posted by Zorba Craising6734 2009-04-23 17:04|| 2009-04-23 17:04|| Front Page Top

#9 So the question is whether we will run out of time or money first

Posted by European Conservative 2009-04-23 17:15|| 2009-04-23 17:15|| Front Page Top

#10 And no deterrent. Pirates know they risk their life any minute. You think that "don't do this or you will be sent to a US jail" will make a difference?

Spot on. The worst prison in the US is paradise compared to what the Somalis made for themselves. It's a waste of our resources and an attractant to more piracy.
Crewman says pirate glad to have attacked US ship
A crewman from the Maersk Alabama says the sole surviving pirate -- who now faces charges in the U.S. -- seemed happy that he'd raided an American vessel. The crewman -- "Zahid" Reza -- says Abdiwali Muse told him it was his dream to come to the USA. Reza stabbed Muse in the hand during a struggle on the ship and guarded him for several hours.
Via Instapundit.

Posted by ed 2009-04-23 17:56|| 2009-04-23 17:56|| Front Page Top

#11 Dude will end up on The View telling the shrews how the awful Bush policies are to blame for the pirate 'problem'.

Posted by Zorba Craising6734 2009-04-23 18:11|| 2009-04-23 18:11|| Front Page Top

#12 Too bad he didn't go to Kenya.

Posted by Jan 2009-04-23 19:39|| 2009-04-23 19:39|| Front Page Top

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