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Day Late and a Tanker Short: Royal Navy Fights Somali Pirates

Posted by: Scott @ 6:31 am in Fanatical Islam, Military, War On Terror, foreign policy, somalia  | 3 views

By now, it shouldn’t be news to anyone that the waters around Somalia abound with modern day pirates. NATO, Russia, US, you name it…seems like most of the countries in the world are sending ships to confont the Somali pirates (who are interestingly enough tied to Al Queda). Today, the Royal Navy actually got into a high seas shootout with some of the pirates. Sadly, they did not get the pirates who managed to captured a tanker loaded with chemicals the day before.
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9 comments so far

Hard Right
 1Reply to this comment  

What’s a tanker or two between friends?

November 13th, 2008 at 9:36 am
luva the scissors
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i have a fabulous idea….ask the fbi if the pirates are there, see what they say. anyway, you would think that the military that was confroting the pirates would be better than the pirates, guess not. i realize it can be hard to deal with these kinds of people, but seriously it makes the britts look inept. and if obama has his way that is how we will all look in the future.

November 13th, 2008 at 11:01 am
rover
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If they killed 3 pirates, that’s somewhere between 0.3 and 0.06 per cent of the Somalian pirate population wiped out. Well, it’s better than 0.0.

November 13th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Hard Right
 4Reply to this comment  

It’s like that old joke:

What do you call 3 dead somali pirates?

A good start.

November 13th, 2008 at 11:52 am
John Ryan
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God bless our Dear Leader President Bush

November 13th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
SBSmith
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The Somali pirates are giving Pirates a bad name !

November 13th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
mynameis
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I’m interested to know where you learned that the Somali pirates are tied to Al Quaeda. I’ve been following news of the pirates over the past few years, and everything I’ve read specifically states that the pirates are not Islamists. They are mostly ex coastguards and fisherman, and like pirates the world over are motivated by loot, treasure, ransom and booty.
A good source of info for those who want to keep abreast of the pirates activity, is the website cargolaw, that keeps a database of all pirate attacks worldwide.

http://www.cargolaw.com/2008nightmare_mv.faina.html has a complete history of the hijacking of the mv faina, the ship loaded with tanks and weaponry whose hijack has at last prompted the interest of the worlds navies.

November 14th, 2008 at 5:40 am
Scott
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shabaab_(Somalia)

“It has been alleged that some of the funding for Al-Shabaab’s activities comes from Somali pirates.[9] an allegation denied by the International Maritime Organization in East Africa[10]“

http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnLO005723.html

“The United States say al-Shabaab is a terrorist group with close ties to al Qaeda. Experts say some of the businessmen and warlords who command the pirates are also funding the rebels.

“The entire Somali coastline is now under control of the Islamists,” Andrew Mwangura, head of the East African Seafarers’ Assistance Programme, told Reuters in an interview.

“According to our information, the money they make from piracy and ransoms goes to support al-Shabaab activities onshore.”

November 14th, 2008 at 6:00 am

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