somali pirates

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/25/us-somalia-hostages-idUSTRE80O0I220120125 :clap:

Story: What, expecting something different? :D

POFSs. I'm all for putting them all back on their ship and blowing it to fn bits. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/02/22/americans-aboard-yacht-captured-pirates-reportedly-killed/#

Is it just me, or does anybody else think it's time to sink anything leaving a Somali port? An actual effective close blockade.

It looks like the South Koreans do not want to pay ransom to pirates anymore. http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/01/21/south.korea.pirate.rescue/index.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dawn_of_Gulf_of_Aden Ranb

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8675978.stm Well, these things happen. People die at sea all the time!

I'm desperately sorry for Paul and Rachel Chandler, kidnapped by Somali pirates 100 days ago, and no way to pay the ransom demanded. There was some more heartrending footage of the couple shown today. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/8489958.stm I just noticed something a bit strange...

Hire Israeli guards.

OK, not sure if this aspect of the Somalian piracy issue has been discussed here, but I found some articles and thought I would put them here for some kind of response. The short version is that when the Somalian Government collapsed in 1991, they effectively lost any ability to protect their...

There has rightly been a lot of talk the last few days about how to handle the problem of the Somalian Pirates. Like most Americans, I figure I have the answer :) We have had similar problems in fairly recent history. Don't have to go back to the the 1700's. We can look back on our two World...

Interesting headline... especially in light of the fact that some conservative commentators (Ann Coulter, specifically) started to publicly bash Obama for "rolling over" for the pirates. Analysis: Obama beats first national security test I wonder if that crow tastes good to Ms. Coulter? :D

I was looking for factual information on the pirate thing ... and stumbled across this thread on FreeRepublic. Here are some of the comments made in the three hours or so preceding the news of the total pwnage of the pirates. * "Obama: making the US look like limp-wristed weaklings" * "I hope...

Seems the pirates operating out of Somalia bit off a bit more than they could chew yesterday: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090408/ap_on_re_af/piracy I'm not normally a flag-waver, but this does make me feel good. Particularly about the three pirates that are "in the water" 128 miles from the...