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Africa Horn
Ever wonder how the pirates board a supertanker?
2008-11-21
Or why it is so easy for them to take over a ship?

Click the link and watch the video!
Posted by:gorb

#10  Well, if we were cold blooded enouhg, issue letters of marque and repraisal.

$10K per pirate relative head. $100K per pirate head. Attached or not.

Find where the villages these come from, and raze them. Decimate the population. Repeat every time a ship is ransomed.
Posted by: OldSpook   2008-11-21 22:17  

#9  Oh how?
Zepplins!
Atomic Powered!
Small!
Thousands of dem.

Escorted by Q-blimps.
Posted by: .5mt   2008-11-21 18:27  

#8  Meh, ships. Let's just fly in the oil.
Posted by: .5mt   2008-11-21 18:25  

#7  Get rid of the rails along the edges. Or make them break loose after about 30 seconds of tension . . . .
Posted by: gorb   2008-11-21 17:06  

#6  cant a predator hover and then walk down and shoot them all as opposed to run down and shoot that one.....
Posted by: Elmineck Lumplump9268   2008-11-21 14:49  

#5  As a cheap escort "riding shotgun", I don't think a Predator can be beat AS7979.
Posted by: Minister of funny walks   2008-11-21 13:17  

#4  1 predator
Posted by: Albert Spusotch7979   2008-11-21 10:48  

#3  Get some ex-military blackwater types on there and this shit will end very quickly.

Even have mobile teams that can load and unload from ships before they pass the Somali coast so the cargo ships are protected would work wonders.
Posted by: DarthVader   2008-11-21 09:43  

#2  Some shipping companies are avoiding the Suez transit......
Posted by: crazyhorse   2008-11-21 09:16  

#1  They're going to have to bite the bullet and start paying for security teams on ships.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2008-11-21 08:24  

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