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2009-11-19 Africa Horn

What Are Those Warships Doing Off Somalia?

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Posted by Fred 2009-11-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
File under: Pirates

#1 Pirate-fightin' navies? Who, exactly, has been fighting the pirates? If there was any fighting, there would be shore landings by Marines to eliminate the pirate nests.

Posted by gromky 2009-11-19 00:21|| ]">[ ] 2009-11-19 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Uh, uh, "APOCALYPSE NOW" COL. ROBERT DUVALL >
"Thats nice, soldier, BUT YOU EITHER SURF, OR YOU FIGHT"!

Gut nuthin.

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2009-11-19 00:39|| na]">[na] 2009-11-19 00:39|| Front Page Top

#3 I still say that if you give merchant ships a few good flame throwers, the pirates go away.

Posted by crosspatch 2009-11-19 02:54|| 2009-11-19 02:54|| Front Page Top

#4 This is one of the European's dirty little secrets. They are in it to essentially pirate the fish off the East coast of Africa. However, a problem evolved when the Italian Mafia also took the opportunity to start illegally dumping toxic waste of the East coast of Africa.

The two goals are mutually exclusive. It doesn't do any good to steal someone's fish if you poison it first.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-11-19 08:34|| 2009-11-19 08:34|| Front Page Top

#5 What Are Those Warships Doing Off Somalia?

The 21st Century version of a yachting regatta. Show the flag, but do nothing serious.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-11-19 09:20|| 2009-11-19 09:20|| Front Page Top

#6 The Navy's new jet-sized surveillance drones based in the Seychelles ...

Really? I didn't know that.

Posted by Steve White 2009-11-19 10:53|| 2009-11-19 10:53|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm very comfortable, if not downright approving of european fishing boats looting the somalian waters (better for the spanish to do that there than in french waters and provoke a clash with the remnants of the french fishing industry as they did years ago), anyway, it's a great "in yer face" to those... nice productive, sensitive somalians, I guess, who bring happiness and order wherever they venture... BUT, I'm not happy, not happy at all with toxic wastes being dumped in that very same sea. What are you thinking? People will eat that fish! I might eat that fish!

Guys, let's get organized.

Loot the somali halieutic booty.

Dump the green glowing waste IN THE SOMALI MAINLAND, dammit.

Let's starve them from that sweet brain-noursishing fish, and give them cancer, it's not like everyone cares (or should care, for that matter, sucks to be a failed state all by your own fault).

Posted by anonymous5089 2009-11-19 15:01|| 2009-11-19 15:01|| Front Page Top

#8 WMF > US PLANS TO SEEL AEGIS-FITTED LITTORAL COMBAT SHIPS TO UAE AND OTHER GULF NATIONS.

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2009-11-19 23:14|| na]">[na] 2009-11-19 23:14|| Front Page Top

#9 TOPIX > UK WARSHIP WATCHED AS PIRATES TOOK TWO BRITONS.

versus

SAME > IRAN SENDING WARSHIPS TO YEMEN.

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2009-11-19 23:45|| na]">[na] 2009-11-19 23:45|| Front Page Top

#10 OOOOOPPSIES, forgot SAME > SOMALI PIRATES EXPAND RANGE OF OPERATIONS, STRAIN ON NAVAL PATROLS.

For some mysteri reason I'm reminded of CAPT JACK SPARROW + his burning BONFIRE OF RUM.

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2009-11-19 23:48|| na]">[na] 2009-11-19 23:48|| Front Page Top

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