Somali Women Flocking to Port in Hope of Marrying Pirates

CNN ^ | April 9, 2009 | Staff

[BarnacleCenturion]

Pirates are holding a U.S. captain hostage at sea. The Navy is watching everything that happens. So what is supposed to happen next? And what is driving this problem? We talked to someone who knows a thing or two about the pirates and has experience covering them in Somalia. Kaj Larsen, former U.S. Navy SEAL, spoke to T.J. Holmes on CNN’s American Morning Thursday.

Larsen says the root conditions of poverty, lawlessness and civil war on the ground in Somalia are to blame. The large sums of ransom money being paid out to pirates, he says, is even leading some Somali women to venture to the port town of Bosaso in hopes of marrying these newly-rich men.

[nickcarraway]

This thread will be pulled.

[Heavy Fuel]

I hope the potential wives brought caskets for their pirates.

[BarnacleCenturion]

Why?

[al baby]

Any pics ?

[Cyber Ninja]

Why do you think that?

[marron]

The root of the problem is that piracy pays better than building things and growing things.

The Navy is in the perfect position to change that, and to deliver a badly needed life lesson, that piracy gets you killed, and it gets your boat sunk, and it gets your home port burned to the ground.

[al baby]

They are very colorful women

[Heavy Fuel]

you know it won’t be long before Bush is blamed for these conditions.

[alecqss]

The Navy is in the perfect position to change that, and to deliver a badly needed life lesson, that piracy gets you killed, and it gets your boat sunk, and it gets your home port burned to the ground.

Maybe... but a dummy as a commander in chief makes any position hopeless.

[alecqss]

you know it won’t be long before Bush is blamed for these conditions.

I wonder why it takes so long!

[billorites]

The pirates best run for their lives...

[RichInOC]

[cue “Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Pirate’s Life For Me”]

No, really, I have this mental image of the part of the ride where the guys are chasing the girls around...and the one big girl is chasing one of the guys around.

[Steve Van Doorn]

"poverty"
if they are so poor how do they get the boats guns and gas to do their evil?

[SkyPilot]

Larsen says the root conditions of poverty, lawlessness and civil war on the ground in Somalia are an Islamic Hell Hole is to blame

[Heavy Fuel]

Thats funny, I was thinking that today. Hell, I dont even have a gun or a boat, how can they be poor?

[shankbear]

We should simply target the pirate camps and blow them away. Wives and all. Obama does not have the stones to do it. We know where they live, we just need to slaughter them all.

[Revolting cat!]

Hot babes!

[SkyPilot]

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Yo Ho Ho’s?