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Italy Cruise Ship Fires on Somali Pirates
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Posted on 04/26/2009 2:03:38 AM PDT by Jonny foreigner
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To: DieHard the Hunter
This catch-and-release concept for pirates is a sick joke. Apparently, tho, that happened last week because it was against the law in the Netherlands to hold the pirates once they were captured.Pirate's creed: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES (nor due they require any law)
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posted on
04/26/2009 4:28:35 AM PDT
by
ExSES
(the "bottom-line")
To: Jonny foreigner
a 22-day cruise from Durban, South Africa, to Genoa, Italy.Uck. You couldn't pay me to take that trip.
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posted on
04/26/2009 4:36:24 AM PDT
by
Sandy
To: Ronin
Shotguns off the fan tail. OH and a few antique M-79 grenade launchers too. Sounds like a fine day. Not too much booze though. Destroys the aim.
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posted on
04/26/2009 5:09:21 AM PDT
by
70th Division
(I love my country but fear my government!)
To: ccmay
What a lovely thought. A good coming of age activity for our young men and a great way to vent for pissed off femininsts. The feminists get to shoot men freely, getting some of that inner resentment out.
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posted on
04/26/2009 5:12:42 AM PDT
by
Niuhuru
To: Leisler
The Coast Guard has a 30 cal machine gun and a 50 cal sniper rifle on their drug helocopters. A 50 puts a nice hole in a boat or an engine.
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posted on
04/26/2009 5:13:23 AM PDT
by
70th Division
(I love my country but fear my government!)
To: Jonny foreigner
There is one cruise line (which I can not name) that has a SWAT team on every one of it’s ships. It also has divers that are constantly under the ship guarding it at every port stop.
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posted on
04/26/2009 7:14:58 AM PDT
by
Nahanni
To: Jonny foreigner
If more ships start fighting back, piracy won’t seem so attractive as a career choice.
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posted on
04/26/2009 7:58:04 AM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: ccmay
We should be issuing letters of marque, and allowing privateers to troll for pirates while armed with heavy machine guns and TOW missiles.
I think a fire and forget Javelin would work better. Trying to keep the MGS lined up while on a boat against a moving target in the ocean would be extremely difficult. Now if you could mount a gyro stabilized Bradley turret to a fast moving SEAL type boat, that would be the shiznit!
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posted on
04/26/2009 8:00:12 AM PDT
by
Tailback
To: DieHard the Hunter
“Tankers and ocean-going liners are very, very hard to sink like that.”
Hmmm...Remember the “unsinkable” Titanic?
To: GGpaX4DumpedTea
> Hmmm...Remember the unsinkable Titanic?
(It was a bit before my time, but...)
IIRC the ice berg opened up its side across multiple water-tight compartments, making it difficult or impossible to isolate the leaks. I’m trying to imagine an RPG capable of doing that, and I just don’t see it.
As well, many tankers have double-hulls: one inside the other. The RPG might hole the outer hull, but the inner hull is probably going to stay intact.
Even so, an RPG would make an untidy hole, and I imagine it would cost a fortune to get it patched up and sea-worthy again.
If it’s an oil tanker, those are even more buoyant because oil floats on water, making an tanker full of oil extremely difficult to sink.
If I had to guess, all of this surrendering to the Pirates isn’t so much driven by their ability to sink the boat as it is their ability to damage the ship and/or kill or harm the crew, thus requiring claims to their insurance.
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posted on
04/26/2009 8:15:56 AM PDT
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fà g am bealach.)
To: VicVega; FastCoyote; Jonny foreigner
Coyote: At some point the Somalis will sink a tanker or cruise ship with an rpg. Then the question will be, where was the Empty Suit.
Vic: With the messiah in office, they will still blame Bush.
C-4: And will continue to do so until the end of time. For today, though, they have nothing to say. All I can offer is my heartfelt Viva Italia!
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posted on
04/26/2009 8:17:42 AM PDT
by
Category Four
(Joy, Fun, the Joke Proper, and Flippancy ... Flippancy is the best of all.)
To: Ronin
"Hell, sounds like a great idea for a vacation trip to me. Get a bunch of ex-grunts and wannabees together, hire a cruise ship and go trolling for pirates." Now that's a hell of an idea. You could give prizes for the most killed, etc.
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posted on
04/26/2009 8:18:53 AM PDT
by
blam
To: Jonny foreigner
I saw something the other night where pirates boarded a tanker and weren't interested in the crew of taking the ship. All they wanted was to learn how to guide it into port and how to set the auto pilot. They took some gear and manuals with them when they let the ship go. Sounds like pilots learning how to fly planes but not interested in learning how to land them. A liquid natural gas tanker could destroy a port and the city around it. Obambi better straighten up before we lose a port, city and people. But as with all liberals this will have to happen before any real action is taken.
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posted on
04/26/2009 8:29:07 AM PDT
by
BabsC
To: FastCoyote
One hell of an rpg. Sure you don’t mean a harpoon or a sunburn?
To: Jonny foreigner
First the French and now even the Italians have found spines to deal with the pirates. Too bad the US is too busy waving the white flag.
To: GGpaX4DumpedTea
“Hmmm...Remember the unsinkable Titanic?”
The Titanic hit a freakin iceberg. One RPG hit would not sink a large ship. Remember it would have to hit at the waterline. 10 feet above the waterline would not sink the ship.
10 hits 10 feet above the waterline would not sink the ship.
Did you see pictures of the USS Stark. Holy Crap. That had a hole the size of a house in it and it did not sink.
The Titanic had a hole about 200 feet long below the waterline and it took about 2 hours to sink.
Shiploads of explosives would be required or torpedos.
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posted on
04/26/2009 9:11:22 AM PDT
by
GreyMountainReagan
(Liberals do not view the book 1984 as a warning but as a textbook.)
To: Jonny foreigner; All
I didn’t see it in the link but the female anchor on FOX this morning said it was a Israeli security team(civilian?). Can anyone confirm?
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posted on
04/26/2009 9:26:33 AM PDT
by
GOYAKLA
(My Tee shirt for 2009-2012:" I voted FRED don't you wish you did")
To: Leisler
It would suck to be a hundred miles out in the shipping lanes in a sinking small boat. Maybe bleeding. I would hope that a single gut-shot survivor from each boat could make it back to home port to tell the tale.
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posted on
04/26/2009 9:27:42 AM PDT
by
Max in Utah
(A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
To: Jonny foreigner
they ( the pirates ) were fired on and turn and ran, hmm, that works
To: Nahanni
RCCL does that but its a secret
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posted on
04/26/2009 9:36:00 AM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom)
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