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2012-06-28 Africa Horn

'Give Somalia the funds and we'll end piracy in a year'

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Posted by Fred 2012-06-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Pirates

#1 5 too 6000 men are gonna patrol 2.5 million sq. miles? Get on your fishing boats and start as a good will measure.

Posted by chris 2012-06-28 00:27|| 2012-06-28 00:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes, let's give Somalis boats and guns. That will solve the problem.

Posted by Grunter in Sydney 2012-06-28 02:26|| 2012-06-28 02:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Isn't the implied threat to produce said giving a kind of piracy?

Posted by no mo uro 2012-06-28 05:52|| 2012-06-28 05:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes, let's give Somalis boats and guns. That will solve the problem.

From your lips to Eric Holder's ear, Grunt. What can this one be called, "Slow and Seething"?

Posted by BA 2012-06-28 11:25|| 2012-06-28 11:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Take out the villages connected to the piracy and the piracy is over. That is something the west won't do that Somalia's government could for the price.

Posted by rjschwarz 2012-06-28 15:02|| 2012-06-28 15:02|| Front Page Top

#6 I smell Pakistain all over again.

Posted by gorb 2012-06-28 19:53|| 2012-06-28 19:53|| Front Page Top

#7 You know, despite the terrific recoil, a WW II PT boat could support a single 40mm Bofors.
If a boat such as that, with sufficient ammo, wandered into a pirate port, the pirates would be land-bound in about fifteen minutes.
Which is to say, this is not a big deal, if anybody were interested.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2012-06-28 20:44|| 2012-06-28 20:44|| Front Page Top

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