[Kenton]

How can they try him in New York, or anywhere else in the US?? For good or for worse, this guy is a Somali citizen.

Acts of piracy on the high seas can be prosecuted by the country where the ship is owned.

[Bean Counter]

I think the operative phrase is “Can be”...not “shall be”.

I still think it would be far better to warn this one that the US Navy will speed him and his friends to Allah, if they are caught so much as looking at a box of Capn’ Crunch, and turn him loose to go home and spread the word.

Ain’t gonna happen now, unless the French decide they’ve had enough....ain’t that somethin?? Who would have believed that was coming two years ago...??

[Bean Counter]

I think the operative phrase is “Can be”...not “shall be”.

I still think it would be far better to warn this one that the US Navy will speed him and his friends to Allah, if they are caught so much as looking at a box of Capn’ Crunch, and turn him loose to go home and spread the word.

Ain’t gonna happen now, unless the French decide they’ve had enough....ain’t that somethin?? Who would have believed that was coming two years ago...??