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2008-03-18 Africa Horn

'American Warships Should Leave Somali Coast Or Fight Pirates' - Puntland Govt

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Posted by Fred 2008-03-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
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#1 "Who allowed them to fish along our [Somali] coast?"

Who's gonna stop 'em?

Posted by Abu Uluque (aka Ebbang Uluque6305) 2008-03-18 11:46|| 2008-03-18 11:46|| Front Page Top

#2 "Local fishermen are not allowed to take their boats to sea,"

Ummm, local pirates you mean?

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-03-18 12:41|| 2008-03-18 12:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Just don't tell them about the Zionist Death Ray....

(oops!)

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-03-18 12:46|| 2008-03-18 12:46|| Front Page Top

#4 why not fight the pirates? thye are just terrorist with a diff name

Posted by sinse 2008-03-18 16:08|| 2008-03-18 16:08|| Front Page Top

#5 why not fight the pirates? thye are just terrorist with a diff name

A little thing called 'territorial waters'. It's only been around since the 1700s and strictly adhered to by all martime nations...

Posted by Pappy 2008-03-18 17:23|| 2008-03-18 17:23|| Front Page Top

#6 when they attack forein vessels in those maritime waters that goes too shit for their legal defense. if there wasn't a prob then we wouldn't have ships protecting civilian shipping

Posted by sinse 2008-03-18 18:04|| 2008-03-18 18:04|| Front Page Top

#7 America's first war as the USA was against Muslim pirates.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2008-03-18 18:43|| 2008-03-18 18:43|| Front Page Top

#8 sinse, not quite: if the pirates attack foreign ships in those waters it is the territorial country who can punish them, not us without permission.

Witness the sensitivity of surrounding countries re: any US presence in the Malacca/Singapore straits.

Posted by lotp 2008-03-18 19:17|| 2008-03-18 19:17|| Front Page Top

#9 when they attack forein vessels in those maritime waters that goes too shit for their legal defense.

1. Most of the attacks occur in international waters. The pirates then flee into territorial waters. It then falls to that nation to deal with it.

2. Even if the attacks occur in territorial waters, it still falls to that nation to deal with it.

You may not like it, but there's a reason the law's been around for 300+ years. It prevents other nations, non-governmental orgs, and international groups from doing objectionable things in your territorial waters, like seizing vessels or say, shelling some industrialist's beachfront house.

if there wasn't a prob then we wouldn't have ships protecting civilian shipping

I never said there wasn't a problem. And if you'd
bother to notice, those warships are protecting shipping in international waters.

Posted by Pappy 2008-03-18 20:53|| 2008-03-18 20:53|| Front Page Top

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