Indian navy captures 23 pirates: Pirates threatened a merchant vessel in the Gulf of Aden, navy says

MSNBC / The Associated Press ^ | December 13, 2008

[2ndDivisionVet]

Sounds like the Indian Navy is doing the heavy lifting against these pirates. Most countries have a navy, so where are they?

[hamburglar]

Send the pirates a message...feed them to the sharks, film the carnage and put it on youtube.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I guess the AP people haven’t heard about Google:

http://www.jimmatimes.com/article.cfm?articleID=31556

[wolfcreek]

Wrap them in bacon first.

[meatloaf]

Cover them with pig fat first.

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will present a draft Security Council resolution next week asking the United Nations to authorize "all necessary measures" against piracy from Somalia.

But on Friday, the commander of the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet expressed doubt about the wisdom of launching attacks against Somali pirates on land, as the draft proposes.

U.S. Vice Adm. Bill Gortney told reporters that it is difficult to identify pirates, and the potential for killing innocent civilians "cannot be overestimated."

WTF is up with out glorious Adm Gortney anyway?

You can't tell me we don't know EXACTLY where these ISLAMIC terrorist, pirates live

And if he's too much of a wuss to do the job, perhaps its time he submitted his retirement papers and let someone else handle this little matter.

[Vaquero]

they should have all been killed when they ‘resisted’.

[river rat]

Pirates - encountered on the high seas - acting aggressively - aren't entitled to being taken prisoner...

ALL should be dispatched on the spot, and disposed of as one would any garbage at sea.

The civilized world has become FAR too civilized - and the barbarians are taking advantage of that fact.

[TheConservativeParty]

They should have been shot, and pushed off the plank...since bein’ dead and all...they couldn’t have walked off the plank.

[NormsRevenge]

That’s 10 yards and a 1st Down. :-)

Keep it up, India!

[NormsRevenge]

In this photograph released by the Indian Navy, Indian Marine Commandos board a suspected pirate ship as its surrendering crew (L) hold their hands above their heads in the Gulf of Aden. The Indian navy said it has captured 23 Somali and Yemeni pirates who attacked a merchant vessel in the Gulf of Aden on Saturday. (AFP/Indian Navy)

[NormsRevenge]

Look kind of like an updated MoTown group to me..

Somali pirates stand in the dock inside a court of law in Kenya's coastal town of Mombasa December 11, 2008. Somalia's government has welcomed a call by the United States for countries to have U.N. authority to hunt down Somali pirates on land as well as pursue them off the coast of the Horn of Africa nation. (Joseph Okanga - KENYA/Reuters)

[river rat]

"Many of the vessels are taken to pirate-controlled regions in Somalia, where they are held for ransom."

Sounds like we know where the bastards and their families live -- why are they still alive?

[EagleUSA]

Of course. You would not expect the U.N. to do anything to one or more of its criminal scumbag members, would you??

Also note — it takes a DEMOCRACY to do anything good for the world.

[gaijin]

Amazing AF video about Future MAV's - Micro Air Vehicles

[FormerACLUmember]

The Indian Navy has been outstanding in the Great Pirate War. Here the Commander of the INS Mysore greets an American counterpart, the Indian ship on the left.

[SandRat]

Of the 23 Pirates I wonder how many are decorating lamp posts?

[Paladin2]

Aren’t Pirates civilians by definition? Where does common sense (and therefore common law) preclude having weapons on merchant ships to protect themselves from common (based on frequency - Islaminst) criminals.?

[tubebender]

Slow news day Norm?

[Seven plus One]

I’ll be impressed when the headline says: ‘Indian navy captures 23 pirates, keel-hauls 22’. Not until then.