U.S. Navy Seizes Pirate Ship Off Somalia

AP ^ | January 22, 2005 | Jim Krane

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

You asked a question. I answered with the information provided. If you know something else to go by, let us know.

[DmBarch]

Probably a few .50 BMG mounts would do. Though I like the idea of bringing back Q ships where a screen drops and five inch naval cannon swing around and fire!

[Cannoneer No. 4]

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[Chewbacca]

Aren't you allowed to execute pirates captured at sea?

[gridlock]

Doesn't look like they are going to be able to outrun that destroyer, does it?

[COBOL2Java]

Doesn't look like they are going to be able to outrun that destroyer, does it?

Kinda like the seafaring version of the SEALs motto: "Don't run, you'll just die tired."

[Aquinasfan]

Somalia has had no effective government since 1991

An amazing fact.

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In this handout photo by the US Navy, the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill, top right, follows a suspected pirate vessel in the Indian Ocean on Saturday Jan. 21. 2006. U.S. sailors boarded the suspected pirate ship in the Indian Ocean and detained 26 men for questioning, the Navy said Sunday. The 16 Indians and 10 Somali men were aboard a traditional dhow that was chased and seized Saturday by the U.S. guided missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill, said Lt. Leslie Hull-Ryde of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command in Bahrain. The dhow stopped 54 miles off the coast of Somalia after the Churchill fired warning shots, the Navy said. U.S. sailors boarded the ship and seized a cache of small arms. (AP Photo/US Navy, Kenneth Anderson, HO)

In this handout photo released by the US Navy, a boarding team from the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill approaches a suspected pirate vessel to conduct a boarding and inspection at sea, on Saturday Jan. 21, 2006 in the Indian Ocean. U.S. sailors boarded the suspected pirate ship in the Indian Ocean and detained 26 men for questioning, the Navy said Sunday. The 16 Indians and 10 Somali men were aboard a traditional dhow that was chased and seized Saturday by the U.S. guided missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill, said Lt. Leslie Hull-Ryde of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command in Bahrain. The dhow stopped 54 miles off the coast of Somalia after the Churchill fired warning shots, the Navy said. U.S. sailors boarded the ship and seized a cache of small arms.(AP Photo/ U.S. Navy Kenneth Anderson, HO)

A Somali gunman carries a Russian-made long range machinegun in the port-town of Merca, October 2005, 100 kilometers (65 miles) south of Mogadishu, as he guards a vessel, the MV Herol. US Navy vessels have captured an number of suspected pirates in the Indian Ocean off the Somali coast after firing warning shots at their ship, the US Naval Forces Central Command said.(AFP/File/Ali Musa)

Looter Guy carries a tub of Dutch-made long neck Heinekens to Somali gunmen in the Indian Ocean as Tourist Guy thanks his lucky stars that he escaped from the World Trade Center, the US Naval Forces Central Command said.(AFP/File/Ali Musa)

[carl in alaska]

You're seized, bubba.

[Constitution Day]

LMAO @ your last "news" photo...

[Doctor Stochastic]

Clinton wasn't president in 1991.

[conservative barking moonbat]

Good practise for the future boarding of super tankers filled with Iranian crude.

[Doctor Stochastic]

The noise maker sounds a lot like dragging fingernails across a chalkboard but at the volume level of a rock band. Of course, the cruise ship (30,000+ tons) could just ram the dhow.

[Carolina_Thor]

no, but, eveyone can thank him for the governmental void that remains in Somalia.

[Pontiac]

You are of course correct.

The point I was trying to make was that had Clinton better supported the our troops in Somalia and not pulled out at the first sign of American blood. today there may have been a government.

[pointsal]

How about issuing a commission to Halliburton to outfit a private vessel. Maybe some big bucks folks could hire a private navy....