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2012-09-27 Africa Horn

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Posted by Steve White 2012-09-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 high school graduate who taught English in a private school before turning to piracy in 2009

Immigrate to Chicago and you can do both!

Posted by Besoeker 2012-09-27 09:11|| 2012-09-27 09:11|| Front Page Top

#2 ahhh ... these boom-bust cycles in economics. they never last as long as you hope :-) i wonder if anyone in central Somalia knows the words to Auld Lang Syne??? :-)

The interesting thing is that criminal financiers in Africa figured out this decline in piracy profits really fast - and they stopped backing the Somali pirates. There is a high-level network of funding for banditry, kidnappings and extortion in Africa that operates well above the waterline where the pirates work. This "venture capital" will just flow into new enterprises somewhere else.

Posted by Raider 2012-09-27 11:15|| 2012-09-27 11:15|| Front Page Top

#3 and the luxury cars repossessed

Seriously?! There are guys in Africa who repo from pirates? Talk about a strong work ethic.

Posted by Shinter Javirong9154 2012-09-27 14:06|| 2012-09-27 14:06|| Front Page Top

#4 ironic, isn't it? all these years we were figuring out ways to send in the SAS and the SEALS. But all we really needed to do was to pay the repo guys to take away the pirates' BMW's and their high-priced hookers.

Posted by Raider 2012-09-27 14:44|| 2012-09-27 14:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Clearly they weren't going after the feared pirate Roberts.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2012-09-27 14:49|| 2012-09-27 14:49|| Front Page Top

#6 I'd have put Ebola in pirate villages, and sent in poisoned anti-biotics.

But I'm nice like that.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2012-09-27 19:44|| 2012-09-27 19:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Pirates beware of loan sharks!

Posted by European Conservative 2012-09-27 20:30|| 2012-09-27 20:30|| Front Page Top

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