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To: Jonny foreigner

From the graphic at the link, most of the attacks seem to be closer to Yemen than Somalia.
And from the link:
“The area we patrol is more than one million square miles and the simple fact of the matter is we just can’t be everywhere at once to prevent every attack of piracy,”
Pretty hard to keep track of all the “fishing boats in that huge an expanse!


3 posted on 04/15/2009 2:59:02 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

From the graphic at the link, most of the attacks seem to be closer to Yemen than Somalia.
And from the link:
“The area we patrol is more than one million square miles and the simple fact of the matter is we just can’t be everywhere at once to prevent every attack of piracy,”
Pretty hard to keep track of all the “fishing boats in that huge an expanse!


i guess the fact that most of the attacks are closer to yemen than Somalia seems logical to me because if i would be a captain i would try to get as far away as possible from the Somalie coast too. and they are correct area is just to large to be everywhere. but it would be a good start if “we” would at least start killing the pirates “we” actually encounter.


10 posted on 04/15/2009 3:09:52 AM PDT by Jonny foreigner
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