[Vaquero]

send all offenders to the bottom.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Already posted as Suspected Pirates Captured Off Somali Coast

[Pontiac]

Somalia has had no effective government since 1991, when warlords ousted a dictatorship and then turned on each other, carving the nation of 8.2 million into a patchwork of fiefdoms.

Thanks to William Jefferson Clintoon.

[Last Dakotan]

pirates had fired on the MV Delta Ranger, a Bahamian-flagged bulk carrier

How about the Bahamians protect their own damn ships?

[Jacquerie]

Too bad prizes are no longer taken to admiralty court, sold, and the proceeds split among the crew.

[Just Lori]

Hull-Ryde said the Navy was still investigating the incident and would discuss with international authorities what to do with the detained men.

No need to discuss anything. They wanna be pirates.... let 'em walk the plank!

[wildbill]

Simple, they walk the plank.

[COBOL2Java]

...to determine which were pirates and which were legitimate crew members, Hull-Ryde said.

That's an interesting distinction! Is it a pay-grade thing? "Congratulations, Ahmed! You are being promoted from legitimate crew member to pirate! Your parents must be proud!"

[COBOL2Java]

The crew used a weapon that directs earsplitting noise at attackers, then sped away.

A weapon of mass destruction, indeed...

[texianyankee]

Has anyone asked Kofi if the US acted prematurely?

[NormsRevenge]

What will Mauren 'Dhowd' have to say about this abuse of the open seas. The nerve of the US Navy to seize these free marketeers. ;-)

[armydawg1]

An appropriate name for a US warship. And well done Squids!

[hinckley buzzard]

Many shipping companies resort to paying ransoms, saying they have few alternatives.

Why not hire a squad of snipers with high powered rifles to join the crew as security? Surely "Soldier of Fortune" readers would line up for the work.

[Chewbacca]

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

[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.

[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.