Somali pirates receive record ransom for ships' release

correction

ARRGHH!!

15 Men on a Dead Man's Chest...
YO HO HO And a Bottle of Gin & Juice, BYOTCH!!!

I AM the powers that be! Aarrrgg!

[link to video.yahoo.com]

What IS the difference between paying off pirates, and paying off terrorists?

Other than the fact that we give the Jews a whole lot more money, that is.

why oh WHY has this not yet been posted?

fucking absolute bollocks

Obama didn't give the go ahead, despite reports to the contrary. Although I don't recall what Obama did almost immediately after, he did something to the Marines that was really sh**ty as punishment. Might have been the rules of engagement in Afghanistan that has caused Marines to die unnecessarily.

Last Edited by AwthrAwthr on 11/06/2010 06:36 PM

The poster you responded to is correct. It was illegal fishing and toxic waste dumping by Europeans in Somali waters that kicked the whole thing off.

The Europeans deliberately targeted Somali waters due to Somalia having no government to speak of. Without a government to guard the coastline, the Somali people took defending their waters into their own hands after they got sick of starving due to the Europeans stealing and killing all the fish is Somalia's territorial waters.

I don't know how much the European government can be blamed for what happened, unless you consider the EU's strict laws forbidding overfishing and toxic waste dumping to be the cause.

It was industry and organized crime that crapped all over Somalia. Gangsters ran the business of illegally dumping toxic waste. So, the Somalis armed up, because one of the opponents they were fighting was the mob.

That's what started it all.

In the beginning the so-called Somali pirates were really just a militia performing coastguard duties, but now it looks like they've graduated into becoming actual pirates.

Anyone else notice "Fernando Cervantes"

Cervantes is a playable character from the popular fighting game Soul cailber.


He' just happens to be a pirate.

The 20 warships the USN just ordered are designed to fight pirates. Hit the search here for warships and follow the links or go directly to google and search for it.

And how exactly do you distinguish a pirate from a fisherman?

The ones with rifles and RPG launchers are pirates, the ones with nets are fisherman. And if they start shooting then their pirates. Optics are very advanced and activity can be monitored from afar and rounds ranged in.

Phony news. This is more boogeyman garbage. Don't believe it.

Follow the pirates back to their village and blow it up....

I guess crime DOES pay afterall.....

Very strange situation, Piracy on the high seas being rewarded in the 21st century - result as any 10 yrd old could tell you MORE FUCKING PIRACY!


Policy of accepting all crew as potentially dead and storming each and every vessel by force - killing all pirates on the spot - result: one ship and crew perhaps lost - permanant end to problem!

One mans pirate is another's freedom fighter.

I actually like these dudes. Nothing to lose and everything to gain. WHat are their choices?

One other thing these dudes confirm is we may be out of the trees for thousands of years, bet we really are not progressing too well as a species! LOL

What's up with the Koreans? Even the Thai navy can deal with Somali pirates that take their vessels:

Thai navy rescues Somali pirate victims

[link to www.upi.com]

Who owns the water?

put a dead parrot by his corpse.

Haiti should start a piracy and start robbing drug running boats and hold it for ransom.

This economy keeps up might be a good vocation to switch too. Just sayin looks like it has growth potential with some serious capital returns.

And I like rum.

damn being a pirate is cool again. screw you guys, i'm going to somolia.

I guess Somalians have finally embraced the American system of capitalism.

Aren't we all held captive in this world? The pirates in America are known as big business.

Um....No, no and no! .....what an dumbass leftoid sheep!

Even pirates won't except FRN's.