[rhombus]

Barbary Pirates? Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute.

[claudiustg]

Somalia = Islamics

[emiller]

In school, on the first day of a new class, some Cambodian kids were discussing how they came to the U.S. I was all worried about the new class, and had jitters, but one of the kids behind me started talking about how hard it was for his family to get to the U.S., because they had to get past the Thai pirates.
I turned around and apologized for listening in, and laughed and said- "you guys had to fight your way past pirates?!" and the all laughed. Nice planet we have here.

[CAP811]

Repelled with what?

[TheOracleAtLilac]

about 100 miles off the coast
25-foot inflatable boats

Quite an undertaking for the pirates

[Rome2000]

Anybody over there on "vacation" deserves what they get.

[NordP]

And how did they know they were Pirates???

They were all wearing these:

[Flavius Josephus]

It is hard to imagine a cruise ship outrunning a little speedboat, but it's also hard to imagine boarding from one of those little things unless they thought the ship was French and they would just surrender and drop boarding nets.

[Rebelbase]

It's time to ressurect some Q ships.

[skinkinthegrass]

passengers awoke to the sound of gunfire as two 25-foot inflatable boats approached the liner.

Just how many 25-foot inflatable boats are in this coastal area?

Track the boats, find the boats..find the Pirates/Islamics
..surround & burn/destroy the village(s)/Town(s).

[Snardius]

"Attention all passengers, we will have regularly scheduled target practice off the stern in 5 minutes. AR-15's will be distributed to all participants."
"Good luck and good hunting."

[soltice]

Let them see why we have the stanza "From the Halls of Montezuma - to the shores of TRIPOLI" in the Marine Coprs Hymm.

The Marines used their sabers back in those days to seperate the pirates' heads from their necks!

Time to bring the Mamaluke Sword for full combat role to seperate the jihadist from humanity!

[Rebelbase]

"Unidentified luxury cruise M/V, with 600 passengers from Europe for Kenyan port city of Mombasa, narrowly escaped seizure by gunmen off the pirate-infested Somali coast when she sped off to high seas amid a trail of gunfire. Capt. made distress call & later switched off radio communication to avoid being traced by the hijackers -- gunmen sailing in 3 boats later abandoned chase as they could not venture into high seas -- no one injured in botched hijack. We also would not identify our ship -- had we been so stupid to sail these waters with paying passengers. (Sat. Nov. 5, 2005)"

http://www.cargolaw.com/presentations_casualties.html

[sit-rep]

for Mombasa, Kenya, at the end of a 16-day voyage from Alexandria, Egypt

Why the hell would anyone want to go there??...

[NordP]

Miami-Based Cruise Ship Attacked by Pirates off Somalian Coast...

Terrorist Class....can you all say, "REHEARSAL?"

[NorseWood]

I would think that a few shots into the inflatible boats would put a quick end to thier pirating days.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

[Manic_Episode]

" two 25-foot inflatable boats approached the liner."

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Just run up to the rec room for a few of these and let the pirates swim home.

[LikeLight]

http://www.icc-ccs.org/prc/piracyreport.php

Weekly Piracy Report
25-31 October 2005

The following is a summary of the daily reports broadcast by the IMB's Piracy Reporting Centre to ships in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions on the SafetyNET service of Inmarsat-C from 25 to 31 October 2005.

ALERT

Somalia - NE and Eastern Coast

Twenty five incidents have been reported since 15.03.05. Heavily armed pirates are now attacking ships further away from the coast. A recent incident took place 120 nm off the eastern coast. Ships are advised to keep as far away as possible from the Somali coast.

[R.W.Ratikal]

We ahve had this problem before. Send in the Navy.