>>I know, and isn’t it great ! No iphone
>>carrying MBA’s making the rules. Just former
>>Navy Seals with state the art weapons free
>>to kill everyone of these bastards found in
>>a boat.

Heck yeah. They took care of the insurgents in Iraq in a Noo Yawk Minit. Those bastards are all dead, right? We won that war, right? There’s peace in the middle east, right?

mission accomplished?

Somalia doesn’t have a navy much less a gov’t that actually controls the country. In other words, who cares if they want anti-piracy forces in their territorial waters?

Take a long walk on a short pier. Your contributions to this, and all posts, is somewhere between total troll and trying real hard to troll.

54,
the USA has a fleet there ALSO.

But will the Somoli LET THEM IN THEIR WATERS??

This is usually what happens every few years, after we’ve backed some rebel faction in a country. They eventually become a problem when we side with a new regime, and the now stronger rebel faction hasn’t been appeased. Like the Afghan rebels, we may have to battle Blackwater some day. And was Blackwater’s founding, just another of George Bush’s ways around the Geneva Convention? First Gitmo, now a privateer army. What’s next, Walmart sellin nukes?

However, …

I wouldn’t get too excited at Blackwater kicking butt. The Russians and Indians already have Navy ships in the area and are sending more. Neither force are pansies and would blow a private, armed ship, such as Blackwater’s, out of the water while sipping tea.

No country will allow armed merchant vessels into their harbors. Foreign Naval Ships only enter a harbor if invited. Otherwise they become subject to forfeiture. No ship owner or insurer would allow that.

BTW, I heard on the radio this morning that the State Department is rescinding Blackwater’s immunity from prosecution in Iraq. Apparently Blackwater isn’t too pleased that the Iraq government is about to prosecute.

Somali Islamist insurgents have begun searching for the pirates who hijacked a giant Saudi-owned oil tanker last Saturday, reports say.

A spokesman for the al-Shabab group, Abdelghafar Musa, said hijacking a Muslim-owned ship was a major crime and they would pursue those responsible.

article on the beeb

It was an INCREDIBLY STUPID move to use them to replace use soldiers in a US war.

http://tinyurl.com/5lbzkg
Iv done a little looking around.
THIS isnt the only location its happening.
This is a Major OIL ROUTE..
I would like a List of ship types, they have Raided. All I see is they Jump a ship and take the crew and SHIP and then RANSOM them back.
EVER try to STOP a tanker? this is like STOPPING a freight train..

-s

And why people get so upbeat about it? Because it would make a helluva summer blockbuster. I want Bruckheimer to produce & direct the movie version.