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To: momincombatboots

I could be wrong, but I don’t think these guys are Jihadis. They’re more straight up criminal scumbags, who may or may not be nominally Muslim, given that they’re Somali.


19 posted on 04/10/2009 2:39:54 AM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Riley

Good point. Even if they are nominal, this would still be blown out of proportion as “proof we are at war with ____” fill in the blank whomever needs money, is poor, is fatherless because of something America did, etc. As much as every one of us, myself most adamantly, want to open fire and control the situation, that might be a bad idea. I did not read until later about the boat being covered. Maybe the captain will be able to do something amazing with this criminals instead of killing them. But sending them home cashless and impotent would be great.


43 posted on 04/10/2009 4:37:32 AM PDT by momincombatboots (The last experience of the sinner is the horrible enslavement of the freedom he desired. -C.S. Lewis)
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To: Riley
I could be wrong, but I don’t think these guys are Jihadis. They’re more straight up criminal scumbags, who may or may not be nominally Muslim, given that they’re Somali.

No way the big guys would let 'criminal scumbags' get millions of dollars in ransom money. The Jihadis are running the show.

77 posted on 04/10/2009 12:46:16 PM PDT by ColdWater
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