Posted on 11/28/2008 5:36:48 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I wonder whether a nice inexpensive minefield would stop them or whether they could sail over it in wooden ships from which to launch pirate speedboats. We could lease the materials needed to that great (and I bet willing!) naval powerhouse Ethiopia for a nominal fee.
Idiotic question: Does Somalia have a government? A police force? An army?
No. A couple of regions in Northern Somalia, Somaliland and Puntland, have formed sort-of-organized statelets with governments.
The last sort-of-real government was the fundamentalist Islamic Courts, which actually managed to stop the piracy for the six months they were in power, until overthrown by the Ethiopian invasion.
Have you ever been in the Merchant Marine???
See my post #25, that is for you too!!!
And Nato refuses to send battleships to help.Worthless money grubbing UN
Maybe they were trained by the French.
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