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2009-03-31 Africa Horn

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Posted by tu3031 2009-03-31 10:50|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 From another perspective, it took 5 hours for seven of the highest-quality assets from the world's premier military powers to subdue ... a skiff with seven dirtbags aboard.

There's a troubling assymetricality to this.

Posted by Seafarious 2009-03-31 12:04|| 2009-03-31 12:04|| Front Page Top

#2 What the heck do they call a "skiff" that it could be boarded??

Where I come from a skiff holds no more than 3 and mostly uses oars or a dinky outboard.

Posted by AlanC 2009-03-31 12:06|| 2009-03-31 12:06|| Front Page Top

#3 That's all well and good, but thanks to the catch-and-release nature of this, these guys will get three-hots-and-a-cot before they're dumped back in Somalia, free to play high seas pirate again. All they've lost is some AK's and a boat.

Posted by Dar">Dar 2009-03-31 13:02|| 2009-03-31 13:02|| Front Page Top

#4 sink the boat with the pirates on board.

News blackout.

Posted by Bright Pebbles the flatulent 2009-03-31 13:11|| 2009-03-31 13:11|| Front Page Top

#5 The pirates will be released.

They should have sank them.
Goddamn western nations are fucking pussies and our timidity will be the death of us.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-03-31 13:17|| 2009-03-31 13:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Goddamn western nations are fucking pussies and our timidity will be the death of us.

No, its when Western nations allowed ivory tower lawyers to supersede practical human behavior known as history to write laws. An early warning of Hope and Change meeting reality.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-03-31 16:14|| 2009-03-31 16:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Next time let the Cobra take the lead. And, as someone said, impose a news blackout.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia">Rambler in Virginia 2009-03-31 18:47|| 2009-03-31 18:47|| Front Page Top

#8 Well said P2k. The only comfort is that if we go down, the lawyers are coming with us.

Posted by ed 2009-03-31 18:53|| 2009-03-31 18:53|| Front Page Top

#9 #8 Well said P2k. The only comfort is that if we go down, the lawyers are ~~coming with us~~. going first

Posted by Frank G 2009-03-31 19:11|| 2009-03-31 19:11|| Front Page Top

#10 I've got a christening announcement form a USS Boxer - c. 1944 though; my grandfather helped build it.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2009-03-31 21:14|| 2009-03-31 21:14|| Front Page Top

#11 Rope, yardarm, pirates - some assembly required.

Posted by Bill Clusose5913 2009-03-31 22:29|| 2009-03-31 22:29|| Front Page Top

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