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2008-10-15 Africa Horn

'Just like any business:' For Somali pirates, 'ransom represents a legal tax'

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Posted by Fred 2008-10-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 "We're defending our waters from foreigners dumping toxic waste and plundering our sea resources. I hope the world can understand this is the responsibility of Somalis and we shall one day be rewarded for our efforts."

Ah, I get it. They're like Somalia Greenpeace...

Posted by tu3031 2008-10-15 09:59|| 2008-10-15 09:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, next time don't have your environmental operatives open the sealed containers on Iranian ships, and things will be more, uh, ecologic.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-10-15 11:16|| 2008-10-15 11:16|| Front Page Top

#3 "Legal tax", huh?

And tell me, what do those cluster munitions wiping out your village represent, genius?

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-10-15 11:26|| 2008-10-15 11:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Not that I am defending piracy, but they do make a concerning point, especially after the report to radioactive sand on board the captured Iranian ship making everyone deathly ill. From another AP article:
ROME Anti-Mafia prosecutors said Tuesday they are investigating a reported Mafia death threat against the Italian author of "Gomorra," the best-selling expose on the criminal underworld in Naples...
The prosecutor said the reported threat involved an attack along a highway, which also would target Saviano's police escort.

Saviano has been under police protection since 2006 when his book "Gomorra," denouncing the Camorra's hold on everything from garment industry to drug running to waste disposal, became a best-seller in Italy...Saviano said Camorra-run companies routinely win contracts to dispose of toxic waste from northern Italian industries by underbidding competitors, then dispose of it illegally and untreated in the region's rivers and dumps.(or sell it to terrorists who could use it in a dirty bomb)

Posted by Thealing Borgia 122 2008-10-15 12:04|| 2008-10-15 12:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Don't forget that they take hostages for Ransom. That in itself would negate their claim of 'defending their shores from toxic waste'.

If they were truely defending their shores they would demand an end to 'dumping of toxic waste'. I've never heard that little tidbit in any of their demands.

Funny how that little claim only came after they opened up the Iranian ship (which, most likely, wasn't even destined for their shores anyway).

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-10-15 12:43|| 2008-10-15 12:43|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm still waiting for our government to deal with this people as they deserve. I know da$$$$ well BHO won't do it, so it might be awhile.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-10-15 12:56|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-10-15 12:56|| Front Page Top

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