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2009-04-13 Africa Horn
Somali pirates vow Dire Revenge™ over comrades' killings
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Posted by Fred 2009-04-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top
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#1 To risk Dire Revenge™ by killing pirates, or to encourage every jackass with an AK and a canoe to become a pirate by paying outlandish ransom demands...

Yeah, that's pretty much a no-brainer.
Posted by Dar">Dar  2009-04-13 01:02||   2009-04-13 01:02|| Front Page Top

#2 ION WORLD MIL FORUM [GOOGLE Chinglish transl.] > IIUC TIMES OF INDIA:BEIJING ASKS PAKISTAN TO HELP CRACKDOWN ON PAKISTAN-BASED/TRAINED ISLAMIST MILITANTS SUPPORTING XINJIANG [China] SEPARATISM. China's view is that the Xinjiang "Rebels" whom are fomenting escalating pro-Islamist/Muslim etyhnic unrest in Xinjiang = Western China are mostly trained and come via Pakistan.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-04-13 01:22||   2009-04-13 01:22|| Front Page Top

#3 OK, so you kill your hostages. Then what?
Posted by gorb 2009-04-13 01:53||   2009-04-13 01:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Excellent... alongside the good precedents set by France and the US this weekend, this pirate rhetoric makes killing them on site all the more likely.
Posted by Bulldog 2009-04-13 04:35||   2009-04-13 04:35|| Front Page Top

#5 The one surviving pirates was stabbed with an ice pick, beaten up by sailors, tied up for 12 hours, in a stupid rowboat for days in 120 degree oven temperatures, & was captured, only to face life imprisonment in the
Posted by whatadeal 2009-04-13 06:34||   2009-04-13 06:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Sounds like we have volunteers for the "object lesson" role...
Posted by mojo 2009-04-13 11:03||   2009-04-13 11:03|| Front Page Top

#7 MOGADISHU, Somalia – A Mogadishu airport staff member says mortar shells were fired toward the airport as a plane carrying a U.S. congressman took off safely from the Somali capital.

An airport staff member reached by telephone at the control tower says the plane carrying New Jersey Democrat Donald Payne took off safely Monday. He says none of the six mortar shells fired landed in the airport. The airport staffer refused to give his full name because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

Payne met with Somalia's president and prime minister during his one-day visit to Mogadishu on Monday. They discussed piracy, security and cooperation between Somalia and the United States. Payne is chairman of the House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Africa.

Posted by crazyhorse 2009-04-13 11:34||   2009-04-13 11:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Also leader of the Professional Black Caucus© - you know, the ones who were kissing castro's ass last week.
Posted by mojo 2009-04-13 12:08||   2009-04-13 12:08|| Front Page Top

#9 I wonder if Hussein and Aden read Drudge...

MILITARY CONSIDERS ATTACK ON PIRATE LAND BASES
Posted by tu3031 2009-04-13 12:14||   2009-04-13 12:14|| Front Page Top

#10 From MSNBC story: Jamac Habeb, a 30-year-old pirate, told the Associated Press... "(U.S. forces have) become our No. 1 enemy."

Good to know! That's the way it should always be and should have been from Day 1, Habeb! Darkness should always hate--and fear--the light.
Posted by Dar">Dar  2009-04-13 13:53||   2009-04-13 13:53|| Front Page Top

#11 Oh, for a couple of battleships with 16-inch guns. Just sit off the coast and lob shells in at random. Almost as good as an ARCLIGHT strike, or a bomb-and-strafe run by 60 Navy F/A-18s. Instead, today's largest warships are equipped with ONE 76-mm pea-shooter.
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2009-04-13 15:54|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2009-04-13 15:54|| Front Page Top

#12 OP, actually, the Bainbridge has a 5 inch gun. (127mm)
Posted by Rambler in Virginia">Rambler in Virginia  2009-04-13 17:12||   2009-04-13 17:12|| Front Page Top

#13 OP - "re:magic word" - I will take that drink!
Posted by 3dc 2009-04-13 17:45||   2009-04-13 17:45|| Front Page Top

#14 OP,
IIRC, about the last time they tried practicing with those big guns they blew up a turret and killed some of our guys.
Also, when your opponent's heavy artillery is an RPG you can get close enough for the 5" - or even 76 mm - to pound the sh*t out of them. The Germans put a lot of hurt on us with their 88 mm guns a few years ago.
Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore  2009-04-13 19:46||   2009-04-13 19:46|| Front Page Top

#15 Dire Revenge™?
Or Tuff_Love™
Didn't the pirates make a deal,
the Captain's life in exchange for the wounded pirate's life?
(They are both still alive by the way aren't they?).
It appears the other three pirates were not included in the life saving deal.
That should be called Tuff_Love™,
not Dire Revenge™!
May the three pirates burn bright in hell like a bright shining star giving light to the heavens.

Tuff_Love™.
Posted by Tuff_Love™ 2009-04-13 21:15||   2009-04-13 21:15|| Front Page Top

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