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2008-10-17 Africa Horn
Arrrrr! Blackwater Ready to Fight Pirates
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Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-10-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 ION NOT-PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, TOPIX > ISRAEL: HIJACKED IRANIAN CARGO SHIP WAS A GIANT DIRTY BOMB!?
Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-10-17 02:34||   2008-10-17 02:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Back to Letters of Mark and Reprisal.
Posted by Procopius2k 2008-10-17 07:43||   2008-10-17 07:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Wow that's quick! I just made that suggestion yesterday here in the 'burg and it's already acted on!
Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore  2008-10-17 09:26||   2008-10-17 09:26|| Front Page Top

#4 This'll work. Until they actually kill some pirates. Then you'll hear the screaming all the way back here.
Posted by tu3031 2008-10-17 09:35||   2008-10-17 09:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Observe the power of this fully-functional Rantburg!!!
Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom  2008-10-17 09:36|| http://www.celiahayes.com]">[http://www.celiahayes.com]  2008-10-17 09:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Blackwater is watching you masturbate! Or, at least, reading RB (or both, possibly).
Posted by anonymous5089 2008-10-17 09:43||   2008-10-17 09:43|| Front Page Top

#7 I would tell Blackwater to leave the villages to NATO so nothing messy could be filmed/used as propaganda. But otherwise I didn't want to see any prisoners.
Posted by DarthVader 2008-10-17 09:49||   2008-10-17 09:49|| Front Page Top

#8 This whole thing got blown out of proportion when the pirates actually got some booty. Disfunctional Euros at work again. They don't seem to learn that no ransom is the only sensible, compassionate solution.
Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-10-17 10:25||   2008-10-17 10:25|| Front Page Top

#9 The pirates use normal people's sense of humanity as a tool against them for profit, by threatening harm if they are not paid ransom. But once their victims turn against them and they or their families are harmed, they usually back off. They understand violence, so give it to them.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-10-17 11:17||   2008-10-17 11:17|| Front Page Top

#10 "stands ready"... so no one has actually hired them yet.... well another couple of captures and I'm sure they'll have some business.
Posted by Menhadden Flusoger9274 2008-10-17 16:10||   2008-10-17 16:10|| Front Page Top

#11 good too hear, maybe some pirate ass will finally get kicked like it should have been in the first place. Hell it would be cheaper for the US gov. just too hire them too do it instead of having our damn ships just sit their and watch for a month at a time
Posted by chris 2008-10-17 17:12||   2008-10-17 17:12|| Front Page Top

#12 "Approves"
Posted by DMFD 2008-10-17 18:51||   2008-10-17 18:51|| Front Page Top

#13 Watch out for a "Wild Geese" type of scenario ashore.
Posted by OldSpook 2008-10-17 20:54||   2008-10-17 20:54|| Front Page Top

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