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2010-09-29 Africa Horn

Insurance firms plan private navy vs. Somali pirates

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Posted by trailing wife 2010-09-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 As a result, shipping companies are contemplating the increased use of armed contractors on board their vessels, something previously considered more likely to escalate encounters with pirates.

So, what are the armed guards going to do? They can't arrest the pirates, because no one, especially the European Union, can effectively try and punish them.

They can't shoot them, because that would be icky.

So what are they going to do? Just wave their weapons and hope the pirates run away?

Personally, I would just put a small leak in the pirates boat - one that is just slightly more than the pumps can handle. If the pirates are truly protecting Somali fishing grounds, and they are close to Somalia, they can get home no problem. If they are 400 miles out to sea, that is their tough luck.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2010-09-29 00:33|| 2010-09-29 00:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds to me like they need a bazooka.
(or whatever the current name is)

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-09-29 00:40|| 2010-09-29 00:40|| Front Page Top

#3 The force, which would have set-up costs of around £10m

Take the money and start plowing it into intel and investigation instead. Someone's tipping off the pirates where the multi-national naval forces are or aren't, what ships are coming through the choke-points, etc. It's organized crime backed by jihadists, not "poor ex-fishermen without means of support" anymore.

And - jack up the insurance rates for shipping passing through those areas to the point of pain, as was done in the Malacca Straits. Refuse to include a ransom clause or charge a premium for it.

Either governments will react to the potential economic damage, or anti-piracy measures will become more effective, or shippers will find another way to move cargo.

Posted by Pappy 2010-09-29 01:06|| 2010-09-29 01:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Pirates sleep just like everyone esle, nice cozy little bunks on shore. Bomb thier nests and this business will quickly stop.

Oh, I forgot. Rich, evil western former colonial exploiters can't kill them because they are poverty ridden [everyone now realizes poverty causes piracy] poor black, dopers and jihadi slavers from Africa who are now ~~an endangered species~~ a protected segment of society.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-09-29 02:30|| 2010-09-29 02:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Take the money and start plowing it into intel and investigation instead

Take the money and use it to go after the Jihad enablers in the West.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-09-29 05:46|| 2010-09-29 05:46|| Front Page Top

#6 to an average $4m and 117 days respectively.

We can rest assured that Ali's, with his AK in the rubber boat, cut is not even one percent of that sum. Time for some Predators hovering over Number Twos and Threes in that region as well.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-09-29 09:15|| 2010-09-29 09:15|| Front Page Top

#7 They would be better off building a mercenary company like Executive Outcomes and work the land side of the problem. Probably with raids and boat destruction rather than all out confrontation. Such a group could possibly find work in areas the nation stations of the world don't want to get involved in (such as Darfur).

Posted by rjschwarz 2010-09-29 09:28|| 2010-09-29 09:28|| Front Page Top

#8 But, but, but the West quietly pressed the emerging "democracies" of Africa to shun and make illegal, all colonial aparthied remnants such as Executive Outcomes. (EO being a well documented and interesting study in it's own right) Also instructed was the cleansing of as many non-Bantu as possible from the defense forces and national police. The results have been extraordinary as evidenced by Zimbabwe and many of the others.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-09-29 09:36|| 2010-09-29 09:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Ah, yes, RHETT BUTLER = LOVER + HUBBY OF THE NOTORIUS SCARLETT O'HARA, WEST POINT GRADUATE, INJUN FIGHTER, BRAVE + SKILLED CONFEDERATE BLOCKADE-RUNNER, = all around SCANDALOUS GENTLEMAN-ROGUE, etc.

At least to the ante-bellum Old South + Old Army.

HMMMM, HMMMMM, e.g. the "BLACKWATER/XE GLOBAL FLEET SECURITY SERVICE, LLC", aka FLEETGUARD???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-09-29 19:24|| 2010-09-29 19:24|| Front Page Top

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