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2011-01-05 Arabia

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Posted by tipper 2011-01-05 07:52|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Damn, I was hoping it was HMS Surprise or USS Constitution

Posted by Cheaderhead 2011-01-05 16:14|| 2011-01-05 16:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Cheaderhead, neither of those two ships could do 20+ knots for six hours.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2011-01-05 18:12|| 2011-01-05 18:12|| Front Page Top

#3 I would have hoped it was the USS "Kill the Pirates", myself.

Posted by Old Patriot 2011-01-05 19:08|| 2011-01-05 19:08|| Front Page Top

#4 waste of money chasing them around on the high seas. Solution is simple and cheap: give Dr Farole in Puntland the funds to jug them. He's got hundreds sitting in the Puntland prisons already.

But the UN won't recognise Puntland as a separate state and doesn't like anybody aiding them directly in case that enables the splitting of Somalia (Somaliland also wants to split)

Hence we have the farce of the world's navies steaming up and down the GOA as glorified, super-expensive highway cops.

And super expensive shipping insurance

Dr Farole's entire state budget in 2008? $15 million. Doesn't go far in Africa... smaller than some of the ransoms paid.

Posted by anon1 2011-01-05 19:15|| 2011-01-05 19:15|| Front Page Top

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