[mdittmar]

Aaaaarghh,we're just pirates not terrorists,where's me rum,aaaargh.

[Dutch Boy]

Patch on the wrong eye again?? The rum Thaaaargh.

(I can't believe even said that...)

[varyouga]

It doesn't sound like a ROP motivated attack. Those guys would have packed a boat with explosives and blown the ship away(a la USS Cole).

[I see my hands]

Where is the US military response?

[ClearBlueSky]

Advice-- Don't cruise off the shores of third world hell holes.

[investigateworld]

How tricky is it to 'make safe' an expended RPG round?

[mdittmar]

I forgot the link.

Pirate rocket 'embedded in ship'

[Pistolshot]

Just think if the captain had a mean streak in him. Running down those two little dingys would have been no problem, then we would have some evidence of who they are.

[Leo Carpathian]

Smells like they tried to blow the cruise ship to scare capitalistic pigs from cruising. More like Cole recipe - blow the ship. Unlikely that two rubber dingies full of "martyrs" would try to take over cruise ship.
Screw the vacations in hostile and hate America countries. Buy vacation home here and enjoy this magnificent country and build the nest egg for the later years.
Oh, and vote the bastRATs out into oblivion!

[Plutarch]

A Q-ship would be just the thing. An innocent looking boat to cruise enticingly by the Somalia coast, and then when the "pirates" (Islamic Terrorists) brandish their RPG's, you open up with serious firepower.

Maybe the WWII Q ship, the HMS President, docked in the Thames, could be sent for a cruise.

[fso301]

That boat didn't look very inflatable. Anyboday have a link to the video?

[U S Army EOD]

If they never got on board how do they know what they are?

[LZ_Bayonet]

Actually, I don't believe these were pirates. I've seen pictures of the ship that was attacked. This being a rather isolated part of the world, they likely have just begun to see "Love Boat" episodes, and, not realizing it was only a sitcom and mistaking this ship for the similar "Pacific Princess", were simply trying to keep
Gopher, the Doc', Isaac, Julie and Captain Stubing from coming ashore with hundreds of over-the-hill actors and actresses looking for love.

[sgtyork]

Strategypage.com has written many times about the high level of pirate activity in this part of the world. This is far from a rare phenomenon. They are probably pirates first and moslems second, but should be hunted down and eliminated either way.

[Brian Allen]

<< "Pirate" rocket 'embedded in ship' >>

"Pirates," my arse.

Those bastards were islamanazi terrorists, Hell-bent on mass-murder.

What in the world will it take to sheet home that we are engaged in a World War for the survival of our very Civilization??


Civil War in France, perhaps?

[SJackson]

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[Aquinasfan]

My senior-citizen mother in law: "I guess they looked like pirates."

[firewalk]

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[Ditter]

aye, matey! Reminds me of my favorite joke. He har!