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2005-10-25 Africa: Horn

New ship feared hijacked in pirate-infested waters

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Posted by Fred 2005-10-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This would make it the twenty-sixth incident since March.

Posted by Pappy 2005-10-25 01:24|| 2005-10-25 01:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Let's see, intercept the ship before it gets to the pirates area, replace the crew with about twice as many heavily armed seals, sail on. When pirates attack ship, seals attack pirates. Pirates die or drown. Pirates claim foul, threaten law suit.

Posted by wxjames 2005-10-25 11:40|| 2005-10-25 11:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Buy cheap tramp frighter on e-bay, convert to Q-ship by adding a couple of A-10 Vulcan cannons on pop-up mounts. Troll for pirates, kill same. Rinse, repeat.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-10-25 12:54|| 2005-10-25 12:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Actually, a lot of this could be stopped by Lloyds better than by SEALS, SBS or SAS types. Just don't insure ships that go to Somalia. Worthless damn country to begin with. Let the UN handle it. There good at rooting out corruption, feeding refugees and peacekeeping.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2005-10-25 14:13|| 2005-10-25 14:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Are ships that stop at Somalia covered by Lloyds? If so that's semi-nutz. That's not taking on risk, that's taking on liability.

Posted by Shipman 2005-10-25 17:24|| 2005-10-25 17:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Send in the UN fleet for pogey bait. The other ships can sail by while the pyrites are occupied.

Oops! I forgot. The UN has no fleet.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-10-25 22:12|| 2005-10-25 22:12|| Front Page Top

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