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Pirates Hijack Second US Vessel
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| 11 April 2009
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Posted on 04/11/2009 8:35:25 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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To: jonrick46
During WWI and WW2 merchant ships were equipped with guns mounted on the stern to protect against attack. Twin fifties would do the trick alright.
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posted on
04/11/2009 10:28:23 AM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(What did Obama's Teleprompter know, and when did it know it...)
To: BarnacleCenturion
Can you name one? Sure, there's the MV Biscaglia, owned by Industrial Shipping Enterprises of Connecticut, but flying a Liberian flag.
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posted on
04/11/2009 10:28:26 AM PDT
by
Amelia
To: massmike
Even Carter needed four years to screw things up as bad as this clown has done in under a hundred days..... Too bad the Constitution doesn't allow a Mulligan.
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posted on
04/11/2009 10:30:17 AM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(What did Obama's Teleprompter know, and when did it know it...)
To: BarnacleCenturion
THIS IS EDWARD TEACH, AKA BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE, BEFORE:
THIS IS BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE AFTER
(WELL, PART OF HIM ANYWAY. GUESS THEY WERE SHORT OF PIKES.) QUESTIONS??? OF COURSE, OLD ED WAS A WHITE GUY -- KILLED BY OTHER WHITE GUYS FOR PIRACY.
COULD RACE, COLOR OR RELIGION BE PLAYING A ROLE IN THE CHANGE IN BEHAVIOR TOWARD THE POOR, DESPERATE, MISUNDERSTOOD MUSLIM SOMALI PIRATES??
PERISH THE THOUGHT!!
To: Sir Clancelot
I have heard that years ago in the old west Coyotes were shot and hung on fences or trees to show the others. Some of these may have been the human kind. Maybe shoot a few pirates and hang them over the side of the ship might make the others to think better of it.
Since the Indian Navy repelled the pirates a few weeks ago, I have not heard of any Indian ships being hit.
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posted on
04/11/2009 10:32:25 AM PDT
by
GOYAKLA
(My Tee shirt for 2009-2012:" I voted FRED don't you wish you did")
To: AmericanInTokyo
There's an Al Jazeera video linked to the one you posted, with a barely-decipherable spokesman from The Mombasa (Kenya)-based East African Seafarers Assistance Programme that seems to be the middleman for the pirates.
As near as I could make out, he was blaming the piracy on a history of foreign "fishing vessels" stealing Somalia's fish, as well as gun-running by foreign ships in Somalian waters.
So, you see, it's all good, and just and noble. I think Obama, who blames everything on Western colonialists, and nothing on the perpetually downtrodden and self-pityingly victimized indigenous people of color, would agree.
Oh, and Eyl is a pile of rubble, it appears, but they're moving on up -- to Nairobi -- with their pirate money...
To: BarnacleCenturion
The Navy is PARALYZED under Herr hussein. Disband it, then - and scuttlle the ships.
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posted on
04/11/2009 10:34:49 AM PDT
by
2harddrive
(...House a TOTAL Loss.....)
To: JimRed
Another symptom of a FAILED PRESIDENCY! ![](http://www.vanityfair.com/images/politics/2008/03/poar01_obama0803.jpg)
Are we sure we can't have a do-over?
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posted on
04/11/2009 10:35:24 AM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(What did Obama's Teleprompter know, and when did it know it...)
To: DesertRhino
They aren't afraid of our Navy ships. Why should they be? They aren't doing a thing. Or if they are it sure isn't effective. All that said, it must be driving the Navy men on those ships absolutely up the wall. To have all their training and now, quite obviously, they have to just sit there.
Maybe this is O's way of demoralizing the military. Who knows.
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posted on
04/11/2009 10:37:54 AM PDT
by
Shannon
To: browardchad
Piracy is normal in Islam and ins’t looked down on. It is considered a legitimate business when the infidel is the victim. In fact the pirates hold themselves out as devout Muslims and requested all Muslims pray for them since they were up against the Unites States
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posted on
04/11/2009 10:39:02 AM PDT
by
dennisw
(0gabe our very own Kenyan subprime president)
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
When this story broke, the story indicated the terrorists got so far into the ocean on a mother ship from which the small boat was dispatched. What has happened to that ship? No word. Also reported is that the Navy had the hostage boat in sight but we, the public, have not seen any photos.
We are being kept in the dark by the Obama government.
This is shameful.
To: manc
I do not know if to laugh and cry while this idiot is too busy getting ready for his homo, cross dressing egg huntThanks for putting it in context. A brave American has put the safety of all aboard his ship ahead of all; his very life, if that is the price; he is being held by pirates who may kill him; and the supposed CinC is indeed preparing to regale homosexuals as special honored guests at an Easter egg hunt...and to welcome the incoming First Puppy.
Makes me sick.
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
0bama’s kicking back at Camp David getting high
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posted on
04/11/2009 10:39:49 AM PDT
by
dennisw
(0gabe our very own Kenyan subprime president)
To: unixfox
"Dont worry our fearless leader has a plan." No that was John Kerry, HE had all the plans...Obama is just clueless!!
To: ozarkgirl
I just hope we’re not being suckered into the area. I do not trust Obama’s ability to make good decisions here.
To: DGHoodini
This is about Obama being a chickenshit DemoLiberal coward, and refusing to allow the SEALs to do do their jobs... Bada bing! Democrats always micromanage military situations into no-win situations.
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posted on
04/11/2009 10:42:40 AM PDT
by
6SJ7
(atlasShruggedInd: ON)
To: dennisw
Piracy is normal in Islam and inst looked down on. It is considered a legitimate business when the infidel is the victim. In fact the pirates hold themselves out as devout Muslims and requested all Muslims pray for them since they were up against the Unites States. Yes, but they have to frame it in modern terms of oppression by the West, which leftists such as Obama find so soothing and palatable. It doesn't matter, of course, whether the supposed offense occurred last year or a few thousand years ago, it's all good, you see, as long as the West, and most particularly, the white man, is at fault.
Comment #198 Removed by Moderator
To: All
Water hoses against the pirates? How....odd. If I wasn’t American I’d be laughing at that myself.
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posted on
04/11/2009 10:43:54 AM PDT
by
modest proposal
(Obama: the most inexplicably popular and useless phenomenon since pogs.)
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
...level each of their home towns, one every day, commencing in 48 hours, unless ALL hostages and ships are immediately released. Damn, I like how your mind works. That's the best solution I've seen on this issue, and it will work. On lots of levels, I might add.
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posted on
04/11/2009 10:44:44 AM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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