Article

2008-12-13 Africa Horn

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Fred 2008-12-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
File under: Pirates

#1 It's primarily a Euro and Arab problem, (plus to a lesser extent India and East Asia). Let them deal with it.

Posted by phil_b 2008-12-13 09:19|| 2008-12-13 09:19|| Front Page Top

#2 So according to this commander if a Pirate takes his girlfriend on a raid with him then they can't be touched. If there's a girlfriend in the boarding party then you better not shoot toward them or anything.

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-12-13 10:17|| 2008-12-13 10:17|| Front Page Top

#3 ROE: Any small boat within 500m of a ship underway is considered a target. Within 300m it and all aboard will be fired upon and killed, the boat destroyed.

If they are boarding, kill them all. No issues that way.

As for kinetic action against those inshore? Predators, hellfires and if they have family in there, oh well. They are putting our families at risk, time to do the same to them. That's the only language they understand.

Seems this squid hasn't learned a damned thing from the land-side battles we fought in Iraq.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-12-13 11:05|| 2008-12-13 11:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Its not our problem. India is stepping up and doing a decent job while getting good experience that will help them and us in the future. We both stand to benefit more having an Indian navy with practical experience and a level of comfort in using it.

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2008-12-13 11:41|| 2008-12-13 11:41|| Front Page Top

#5 India is stepping up and doing a decent job

It's the Indian Ocean, after all, not the Somalian Sea!

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2008-12-13 13:00|| 2008-12-13 13:00|| Front Page Top

#6 It will be a somalian sea if the IN does not step up. I would imagine that the US is the eye in the sky for the IN and others. And that would be an appropriate role for the US.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-12-13 14:04|| 2008-12-13 14:04|| Front Page Top

#7 Besides which, the military has long term memories of the last time the US went into Somalia and how the military was hung out to dry by the incoming Dhimmocrat President. I don't see they as trusting Hussien to be less of a rat than Billy Bob Clinton was.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2008-12-13 18:19|| 2008-12-13 18:19|| Front Page Top

23:42 Old Patriot
23:40 Frank G
23:35 Barbara Skolaut
23:33 Barbara Skolaut
22:57 Barbara Skolaut
22:47 Jolutch Mussolini7800
22:43 Steve White
22:43 mhw
22:39 SteveS
21:50 DarthVader
21:34 Muggsy Glink
21:30 DoDo
21:25 Frank G
21:22 Frank G
21:12 Kermit
21:08 Frank G
21:02 Spogum Hapsburg8193
20:56 Frank G
20:50 crosspatch
20:47 crosspatch
20:45 sjb
20:45 Barbara Skolaut
20:44 Barbara Skolaut
20:42 SteveS