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2005-06-15 Southeast Asia

Details of Foiled Pirate Raid on Malaysian Tanker

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Posted by Pappy 2005-06-15 01:03|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Sorry - should be 'WoT background'.

Posted by Pappy 2005-06-15 01:09|| 2005-06-15 01:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Why'd the police come? Did the pirates not keep current on their payments?

Posted by gromky">gromky 2005-06-15 02:42|| http://communistposters.com/]">[http://communistposters.com/] 2005-06-15 02:42|| Front Page Top

#3 The pirates need to become shark bait as an example to their brothers-in-piracy. And hats off to the crewman who stole the speedboat. That guy was on the ball.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-06-15 02:59|| 2005-06-15 02:59|| Front Page Top

#4 The crewman dives off an oil tanker, steals their speedboat and goes for help. That dude has balls big enough to come in a dump truck. I think somebody on that ship owes him a case of beer.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-06-15 06:33|| 2005-06-15 06:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Lashing a dead pirate or two to the anchor chain would go a long way to guarantee safe passage to any vessel in any waters.

Posted by Doc8404 2005-06-15 08:03|| 2005-06-15 08:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Real pirates would get stinky. Would a couple of properly made up store mannequines do to signal intent?

Posted by trailing wife 2005-06-15 09:02|| 2005-06-15 09:02|| Front Page Top

#7 How about lashing a live pirate to the anchor chain and then dropping anchor?

Posted by Spot">Spot 2005-06-15 09:18|| 2005-06-15 09:18|| Front Page Top

#8 Pirate attacks are Page 1.

Posted by Fred 2005-06-15 09:25|| 2005-06-15 09:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Why'd the police come? Did the pirates not keep current on their payments?

Because it was Malaysian police.

Malaysia is under a lot of pressure to get their act together, partly by playing on their over-developed sense of sovereignty. The U.S., Japan, Singapore, the U.K., and others have directly or indirectly implied that Malaysia better get its act togther or the others will step in.

Malaysia has also been trying to control corruption. It can't attract significant economic investment otherwise.

Posted by Pappy 2005-06-15 10:56|| 2005-06-15 10:56|| Front Page Top

#10 Isn't dizziness and nausea the effects of 'The Scream', the new sound weapon Israel has? Who manufactures it? Do terrorists have a new tool in their arsenal?

Posted by Danielle 2005-06-15 12:34|| 2005-06-15 12:34|| Front Page Top

#11 Malaysians don't like Indonesians and for good reason.

January saw them have a spat over maritime borders in which Indo sent its warships to have a stand-off.

Indonesians have a very casual attitude to ocean rules. We've caught 100 illegal Indo fishermen this year in our waters stealing our fish and hacking off shark fins - and it's only June!

That sailor who stole the boat is the James Bond of the sea. What a complete hero!

Posted by anon1 2005-06-15 12:41|| 2005-06-15 12:41|| Front Page Top

#12 I say keelhaul them.... those which survive would then be set free.

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-06-15 12:43|| 2005-06-15 12:43|| Front Page Top

#13 I would think some special, well armed, troops aboard random tankers would go a long way towards stopping this sort of thing. Pirate ship comes up behind, they're climbing up the ropes, then suddenly faced with a barrage of machinegun fire.

Board the ship using helecopters out of site of land to make sure word doesn't get out on which ships are protected and which are not.

Take one prisoner per crew if possible. You want the word to get out, you want some details that will help break the networks and lead back to Vietnam or China or wherever a lot of these guys are selling the loot. And you want to send a message a pirate is unlikely to miss.

Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz 2005-06-15 14:04|| rjschwarz.com]">[rjschwarz.com] 2005-06-15 14:04|| Front Page Top

#14 I think Commodore Pappy's been over all the problems with arming Merchants and the resulting legal hassle thereby entailed.

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-15 15:22|| 2005-06-15 15:22|| Front Page Top

#15 Thanks, Ship. :)

Posted by Pappy 2005-06-15 16:43|| 2005-06-15 16:43|| Front Page Top

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