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2008-11-21 Africa Horn

Ever wonder how the pirates board a supertanker?

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Posted by gorb 2008-11-21 03:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 They're going to have to bite the bullet and start paying for security teams on ships.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-11-21 08:24|| 2008-11-21 08:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Some shipping companies are avoiding the Suez transit......

Posted by crazyhorse 2008-11-21 09:16|| 2008-11-21 09:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Get some ex-military blackwater types on there and this shit will end very quickly.

Even have mobile teams that can load and unload from ships before they pass the Somali coast so the cargo ships are protected would work wonders.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-11-21 09:43|| 2008-11-21 09:43|| Front Page Top

#4 1 predator

Posted by Albert Spusotch7979 2008-11-21 10:48|| 2008-11-21 10:48|| Front Page Top

#5 As a cheap escort "riding shotgun", I don't think a Predator can be beat AS7979.

Posted by Minister of funny walks 2008-11-21 13:17|| 2008-11-21 13:17|| Front Page Top

#6 cant a predator hover and then walk down and shoot them all as opposed to run down and shoot that one.....

Posted by Elmineck Lumplump9268 2008-11-21 14:49|| 2008-11-21 14:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Get rid of the rails along the edges. Or make them break loose after about 30 seconds of tension . . . .

Posted by gorb 2008-11-21 17:06|| 2008-11-21 17:06|| Front Page Top

#8 Meh, ships. Let's just fly in the oil.

Posted by .5mt 2008-11-21 18:25|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-11-21 18:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Oh how?
Zepplins!
Atomic Powered!
Small!
Thousands of dem.

Escorted by Q-blimps.

Posted by .5mt 2008-11-21 18:27|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-11-21 18:27|| Front Page Top

#10 Well, if we were cold blooded enouhg, issue letters of marque and repraisal.

$10K per pirate relative head. $100K per pirate head. Attached or not.

Find where the villages these come from, and raze them. Decimate the population. Repeat every time a ship is ransomed.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-11-21 22:17|| 2008-11-21 22:17|| Front Page Top

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