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2008-11-23 Africa Horn

Red Sea countries discuss ways to halt Somali piracy

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Posted by Fred 2008-11-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Pirates

#1 You could send them flowers and a nice note asking them to please behave. Or perhaps you could, ummm, kill 'em.

Put armed soldiers or mercenaries on merchant ships. Use convoys with naval escorts through pirate infested waters. Use air patrols to find and sink pirate ships. Naaaahh, better to yak about the problem endlessly.

Posted by DMFD 2008-11-23 10:58|| 2008-11-23 10:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Just look how well yakking about it for months works with Iran. And they yakked it up for years with Saddam and now Iraq is a free country....

(do I really have to place a /SARC here?)

I say a naval artillary barrage of that village is in order. Followed by Old Patriot's ARCLIGHT...

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-11-23 12:17|| 2008-11-23 12:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Fuck 'em. Stay out, save our money and lives as long as US ships and personnel are not attacked. First time US personnel are attacked, hold the pirates and town for ransom.

Posted by ed 2008-11-23 12:25|| 2008-11-23 12:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Ditto Ed. Looks like an African problem. If my memory serves me correctly, they don't like Anglo colonial solutions.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-11-23 12:35|| 2008-11-23 12:35|| Front Page Top

WWSDD

Posted by DMFD 2008-11-23 13:23|| 2008-11-23 13:23|| Front Page Top

#6 We've dealt with African pirates before, and without having to jaw-jaw with every prince, potentate, or peddler in the world before doing it. The first time a US ship is captured, Somalia should cease to exist, even on OLD maps. It worked once, it will work again.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-11-23 13:59|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-11-23 13:59|| Front Page Top

#7 I agree, OP. I hope that we are feeding intel to our allies, like India, who will do something about it. That would be appropriate for us. India, China, Egypt, Saudis, all have a dog in this fight. They need to step up and take responsibility. Cheap flags of convenience are like cheap parachutes. Caveat Emptor, MoFos.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-11-23 15:21|| 2008-11-23 15:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Saudi could stop it real easy.
A life time ban on Hajji trips to Mecca for pirates and everybody in their clan.
It would stop yesterday!

Posted by 3dc 2008-11-23 15:56|| 2008-11-23 15:56|| Front Page Top

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