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2008-09-27 Africa Horn

Russian warship sent to Somalia to fight piracy

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Posted by Fred 2008-09-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 "He said one Russian warship left its base on the Baltic Sea on September 24 heading for the area off Somalia's coast to tackle pirates operating there."

Don't they have any ships in the Indian Ocean? The timeline for their response is a week?

Posted by Penguin 2008-09-27 00:22|| 2008-09-27 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 "Hmm...America is busy, let's try acting like the boss!"

Posted by Tarzan Angeter7567 2008-09-27 01:05|| 2008-09-27 01:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Wouldn't it be hilarious if one of the Russian ships got hijacked.

Posted by gromky 2008-09-27 02:06|| 2008-09-27 02:06|| Front Page Top

#4
Russia on its way to Somalia to defeat pirates and release booty?
Stalin and the Russian army was on its way to Berlin to defeat Hitler and appropriate booty.
The rest is history.

Posted by Winston Churchill 2008-09-27 02:21|| 2008-09-27 02:21|| Front Page Top

#5
If the Russian cruiser were to say, hit a WWII era mine in the middle of the Indian ocean on the way to fight pirates off Somalia, well,
that would be an interesting history lesson.
Anyone with a WWII era mine laying around for an interesting object lesson.

Posted by Winston Churchill 2008-09-27 02:34|| 2008-09-27 02:34|| Front Page Top

#6 More on the Ukrainian ship.

Posted by tipper 2008-09-27 06:19|| 2008-09-27 06:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Laugh all you want. It could just be that the clumsy, heavy handed approach of the Russians is exactly what is needed here. No more surgical strikes. No more finesse. No more worry about collateral damage. Just blast away.

Posted by Abu Uluque6305 2008-09-27 16:04|| 2008-09-27 16:04|| Front Page Top

#8 The problem is that Russian anti terrorist ops have killed many more Russians than the bad guys. Budyonnovsk, Nord Ost and Beslan come to mind. On the other hand, there are few Russian civilians in Somalia.

Posted by ed 2008-09-27 17:11|| 2008-09-27 17:11|| Front Page Top

#9 My understanding is that there is a US warship 1000 yds from where it's ancored to prevent any off loading. So we gonna have a jurisdictional dispute when the Lone Rangerski shows up?

Posted by Elmoper Bourbon6095 2008-09-27 20:38|| 2008-09-27 20:38|| Front Page Top

#10 EB- They have a couple of days to think about it. My question is whether the Ruski Air Force is showing up for this. They can land in Kenya for refueling/emergency overhaul.

Sucks not having any decent UAV capability either.

Posted by Penguin 2008-09-27 21:14|| 2008-09-27 21:14|| Front Page Top

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