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2009-04-18 Africa Horn

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Posted by john frum 2009-04-18 07:49|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Hmmm are we sure the headline shouldn't be Dutch Break Up Somali Pirate/Yemeni Terrorist Dance Mixer?

Posted by regular joe 2009-04-18 08:36|| 2009-04-18 08:36|| Front Page Top

#2 The pirates were set free, the Associated Press news agency reports, because under Dutch law they could not be held at sea under the circumstances in which they were captured.

For crying out loud - capture them under different circumstances.

Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2009-04-18 08:37|| 2009-04-18 08:37|| Front Page Top

#3 No, don't capture them at all. They are pirates on the open sea. Shoot them dead.

Posted by Parabellum 2009-04-18 08:47|| 2009-04-18 08:47|| Front Page Top

#4 No doubt the pirates laughed and laughed and laughed all the way back to port. And are still laughing.

And spreading the word.

Posted by Bobby 2009-04-18 09:40|| 2009-04-18 09:40|| Front Page Top

#5 The West has lost its survival instinct.

Posted by Keystone 2009-04-18 11:31|| 2009-04-18 11:31|| Front Page Top

#6 #5: The West has lost its survival instinct.
Posted by: Keystone||

No, just over-lawyered. One day, perhaps very soon, that will change. When that change happens, I wouldn't want to be a lawyer.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-04-18 14:02|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-04-18 14:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Playing the Devil's Advocate:
Releasing them in Somalia is still preferable to a trial in a western country. If they're convicted the sentence will be light and after legal procedures they will stay in the west as immigrants or asylum seekers, probably on welfare.

I wouldn't be too surprised if e.g. the surviving pirate of the Maersk Alabama attack were to end up as a ~~Sharia enforcer~~ cab driver in Minnesota, a couple of years hence.

Posted by Victor Emmanuel Spease5117 2009-04-18 14:42|| 2009-04-18 14:42|| Front Page Top

#8 every pirate captured by any ship under NATO should be turned over too a "special" boat with some of our special forces on board. Then shoot them into head and dump over board after the other NATO sip is ut of range

Posted by rabid whitetail 2009-04-18 14:43|| 2009-04-18 14:43|| Front Page Top

#9 I guess we just want to make sure the shipping industry isn't profitable either.

Posted by Gluting Fillmore6653 2009-04-18 19:18|| 2009-04-18 19:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Nah, the Maersk Alabama pirate will be tried in NY, found innocent, given asylum and a scholarship to Harvard, and will run for POTUS in 2028. If his middle name is Hussein, he'll probably win.

Posted by Zorba Craising6734 2009-04-18 19:53|| 2009-04-18 19:53|| Front Page Top

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