Convergence of pirates is like having fly paper around to catch them! Time to shoot them all!
The converging ships are apparently filled with hostages to act as human shields.
“Could 19th-Century plan stop piracy?
International efforts to thwart Somali piracy would appear to be floundering. Perhaps words from the 19th Century could offer a solution, writes the BBC News website’s world affairs correspondent Paul Reynolds.
Palmerston did not hesitate to send in the gunboats
If the navies of the world need some advice on ways to stop piracy off Somalia, they could look to Lord Palmerston, British Foreign Secretary in 1841.
“Taking a wasps’ nest... is more effective than catching the wasps one by one,” he remarked.
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“With Somali piracy still threatening shipping, it sounds as if modern navies need a few Captain Joseph Denmans, or the like-minded American, Commodore Stephen Decatur.
Sent to attack the Barbary pirates off North Africa in 1815, Decatur simply captured the flagship of the Algerian Bey [ruler] and forced a capitulation.
When the Bey later tried to repudiate the agreement, the British and Dutch bombarded Algiers.” “
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7991512.stm