American company to fight pirates off Somalia

Reuters ^ | 11/25/05

[Omglol]

i'll bet it is UN money

[Sam Cree]

What do you make of this?

[Right Wing Assault]

Where's Johnny Depp? Send him in as undercover.

[yarddog]

I think Kipling wrote of the Sudanese who are right next door to Somalia: "So here is to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your home in the Sudan; You're a poor benighted heathen but a first class fighting man.

Of course we should also remember that the British did beat them and the Somalis lost hundreds or even thousands at Mogadishu.

They are tough I am sure but mostly they just outnumbered us probably a thousand to one.

[RJS1950]

According to the CIA factbook the GDP of Somolia is
$4,597,000,000.

[Tunehead54]

Yeah I know where to go for the info - so I missed a couple of decimal points - of course there's this "Statistics on Somalia's GDP, growth, per capita income, and inflation should be viewed skeptically"

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Hee Hee! ;-)

[fat city]

Boy, that's a real upper. Looks like a dim future for the "pastoral nomadism" biz in 1.6% arable land beset with famine and ecological desolation. Career Pirate sounds like a good lateral move.

[Tunehead54]

Here's the problem: Religions: Sunni Muslim

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They do have resources - ALL of Africa does - its the governments - See Zimbwabe - used to be the "breadbasket" of Africa - now most are starving - See Mugabe. Very sad. Maybe the UN can help. ;-(

[yarddog]

They sure do have resources. The same can be said of Mexico. In a geography class maybe 40 years ago we were shown that Mexico should be a wealthy country. A tremendous amount of natural resources good climate, just about everthing needed, yet is is not.

Same could be said for many African countries. Must be the lingering effects of those evil colonialists.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

U.S. Navy Seizes Pirate Ship Off Somalia

[Cannoneer No. 4]

[Mr. Lucky]

I wonder if, when they take the mother ship, they'll find those Heaven's Gate wierdos. Didn't they all commit suicide thinking that would be their ticket to the mother ship?

[halfright]

oil, they have, mate! and lots of it!