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2019-12-23 Africa Subsaharan
Pirates Now Prefer Human Hostages Over Ships and Cargo
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Posted by trailing wife 2019-12-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top
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#1 ....A few of these groups find themselves unpaid and on the wrong end of a visit from the SEALs or SAS, and I suspect it would slow down PDQ.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2019-12-23 03:57||   2019-12-23 03:57|| Front Page Top

#2  unpaid and on the wrong end of a visit from the SEALs or SAS

As the Freakonomics boys say, economics is all about incentives.

This might be a opportunity for private military contractors, given government reluctance and lack of capability to get their hands dirty. Lots of whinging from the ICC, Amnesia International and rest of the usual suspects, but all this stuff (piracy and it's consequences) happens in rather lawless areas. Hard boys, hard consequences. Think sea-going RAB.
Posted by SteveS 2019-12-23 06:42||   2019-12-23 06:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Easier to transport and maintain and the pay is almost as good.

I would assign some SEAL and Ranger kill teams to this problem.
Posted by DarthVader 2019-12-23 11:24||   2019-12-23 11:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Bait ship with ebola carrying vectors.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-23 11:56||   2019-12-23 11:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Clandestine prison ship, rotating crews. She never docks. Always refueled and resupplied at sea.

You can board her, but you can never leave.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-23 11:59||   2019-12-23 11:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Leave as shark food.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-12-23 16:58||   2019-12-23 16:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Pirates are the enemies of all mankind, the original outlaws. Shoot, shovel, and shut up.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2019-12-23 17:12||   2019-12-23 17:12|| Front Page Top

#8 ..the original 'corporate raiders'.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-23 17:57||   2019-12-23 17:57|| Front Page Top

#9 
I heard from a marcos buddy that some naval vessels and illegally armed merchants almost always destroy them whenever they can. A lot of dead pirates in the oceans, with Indian/Chinese/Sri Lankan/New Zealand bullets in 'em. Naturally they don't report them. Who wants a Zulu chief or some Kenyan tribal in a suit at the UN seat sneering down at them for saving their own ship ?

Periodic surgical drone strikes on suspicious vessels between the gulf of Aden and Socotra might be good ? What could they do, the somalis - take you to the ICJ ? Tell the soddy's to claim it's their drones.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-23 18:01||   2019-12-23 18:01|| Front Page Top

#10 “As piracy is reduced in East Africa, piracy in West Africa and Southeast Asia has increased.”

It’s not Somalia, anymore, Dron66046. Since you report that armed self defense has worked so well on that side of things, it’s time for shippers passing the west coast of Africa to adopt proven methods.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-12-23 18:47||   2019-12-23 18:47|| Front Page Top

#11 Silly me, TW. Behaving like a twitterer, didn't even read the full thing and went off. I'll consult an idle navy guy right away.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-23 19:17||   2019-12-23 19:17|| Front Page Top

#12 Responding to something half read is a general problem, dear Dron66046, for which I’ve had to apologize far more often than I am comfortable admitting.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-12-23 19:31||   2019-12-23 19:31|| Front Page Top

#13 My friend tells me nothing short of regime change and actually accountable governments in Nigeria will help. But he's a navy man, a bloody rubber duck collecting Yatch golfer, what does he know ? I'm for napalming several acres in the Niger delta, wipe off the MEND and the crazies.
Also that we shamefully paid $2 million recently for some of our kidnapped sailors ! That and China is seeking to militarily secure a port of Conakry in Guinea, and has a $150 million investment in port Lekki, nigeria with advance payments for safe passage of materiel to everyone from officials to many pirate cartels who kidnap people.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-23 19:44||   2019-12-23 19:44|| Front Page Top

#14 Somehow I don't like the idea of Chinese military floats in the region.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-23 19:47||   2019-12-23 19:47|| Front Page Top

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