I'm pondering why our freight ships can't pass that particular part of the Dark Continent's coast line farther out at sea beyond the range of the pirates' non-state-of-the-art vessels?
What am I missing here?
I don't give a rap about the foreign freighters. They want us to defend their lucrative passages, so let them get hi-jacked. Skrue 'em.
Leni
Only fron what I have read, is that this has become a lucrative venture; expensive villas now located on coastal landscapes; thanks to these moneies; the buying of SUV's; more and more 'goods' from the 'village' etc. et al; (yes, trickle down economics works!) and bottom line. . .better boats which have more sophisticated navigation that enables these terrorists to travel further. . .and further, out into the high seas. With this pay off; why would the Somali 'Government' want to stop this?
Think the interlopers need to be blasted out of the water. A clear, definitive message sent; again; and again, fow however long necessary.
Yes, it is 'our' probelem per our ships; we need 'guns' and someone needs to step up and be 'President' here and end this crime now unfolding.