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( Somali ) Pirates 'put down hostage revolt'
AFP...BBC ^ | 9 December 2008

Posted on 12/09/2008 9:20:14 AM PST by george76

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“Rear Admiral Phillip Jones says ...The task force - codenamed operation Atalanta and working under a UN mandate - is not allowed to board seized ships or to free crews held hostage.”

“Bridge Too Far”- US Major Julian Cook, 82nd Airborne, to British tank Commander regarding his stopped column while allied troops without support are being killed and captured by the Germans:
“ Must You Always Do Everything By The Book?!! “

21 posted on 12/09/2008 10:30:28 AM PST by TET1968 (SI MINOR PLUS EST ERGO NIHIL SUNT OMNIA)
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To: Force12
more sensitive and pc "Maritime Theft Technicians".

I prefer "Maritime Activists" myself.

L

22 posted on 12/09/2008 10:34:39 AM PST by Lurker ("America is at that awkward stage. " Claire Wolfe, call your office.)
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To: george76

Ships carrying (or simply representing, even empty) substantial stealable wealth need to get more serious about anti-piracy measures, such as (among others),

- marines (not USMC, but still, professional ship-based men)
- sidearms
- high-tech security, such as coded doors/ portals
- booby traps

Also, as someone else on FR said recently, nations already having a sizeable navy should consider “Q ships” — ships that look like vulnerable, tempting quarry but in fact are heavily armed/ armored, fast, “pirate killers” with elite military crews who are perfectly content to shoot armed pirates who do not immediate surrender.


23 posted on 12/09/2008 10:36:46 AM PST by pogo101
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It is beyond stupidity that the shippers wont defend themselves

I thought I heard that the shippers thought it would escalate the violence. They are wrong, of course. It only encourages it.

24 posted on 12/09/2008 12:16:22 PM PST by Mark17
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To: Bigg Red

The transit time by Somali is short : a few days.

Collecting some retired seals/ marines for the trip should be cheap and easy.

Like collecting and dropping off a pilot in a port. The tanker does not even need to stop as the transfer is done while under way.

Cheap insurance and nice work.


25 posted on 12/09/2008 1:31:27 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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