Zero’s Cousins?
Don’t worry........FUBO will send out a strongly worded letter along with the ransom money..
Well let’s not count on any Brits to help, recently it was reported (and discussed on FR) that the Brits have no laws or authority to capture or prosecute pirates.
We should make these pirates pay and let the lesson known that Americans are not a good target.
Wasn’t America’s first war against Muslim pirates?
Mark my words. This incident is going to be a huge, prolonged embarrasment to the Hussein Administration. It will show just how weak and incompetwnt he really is. More and more people will know, inside and outside of the US.
(Was this the international incident that Plugs Biden was talking about?)
I guess they haven’t pulled Odumbo away from his morning workout yet to tell him this news...otherwise he would have surrendered by now....
Prayers for all those held hostage.
one wonders why ships sailing in known dangerous waters aren’t armed for self-defense - let ‘em board, then take care of them.
it looks like these ships are sitting ducks and there is little or no resistance - free money for the hijackers. one wonders why nobody is fighting back.
Here’s an interesting story from Forbes:
High Seas
Blackwater Floats Private Navy To Fight Pirates
William Pentland, 10.23.08, 02:16 PM EDT
Controversial military contractor joins the fight in Somalia’s waters.
In September, Somali pirates captured a Ukrainian ship bound for Kenya that had a cargo of 33 T-72 tanks and other military equipment. Despite the presence of a number of U.S. Naval vessels, the pirates have refused to return the ship until they receive a $35 million ransom.
The brazen assault made headlines around the world, but it was simply the highest-profile attack in the region of late. More than 70 shipping vessels have been attacked off the coast of Somalia in the past year. Eleven of those ships and 200 crew members are still being held for ransom by rogue Somali pirates.
Foreign navies have begun patrolling the Gulf of Aden to rein in the pirate gangs off the coast of northern Somalia, but they have had only limited success. As a result, ship owners have seen insurance premiums for coverage of passage through the Straits of Aden climb from an average of $900 to $9,000.
In Pictures: The World’s Most Dangerous Waters
http://www.forbes.com/2008/10/23/blackwater-pirates-somalia-biz-logistics-cx_wp_1023blackwater.html
“They'll tune in to CNN and find out Bush is no longer president, that America finally has its first truly global, metro-kinda-president named barack HUSSEIN obama, and they will let them go and apologize. That's just the kid of effect I have on people.”
God bless and protect the sailors, but it is fun to watch this putz of a president having his ass handed to him. Maybe the idiots who voted for him will realize that the world hates them as much as they hate all Americans, and they'll vote for someone who doesn't hate America next time.
Paging the US Navy SEALs.
Over to you, zer0. What’s it gonna be?
Well here is a test for the Obama administration. The only question is how long it will take for them to pony up the cash. The Obama administration will apologize first.
We can only hope he doesnt solve this like Jimmy Carter,tried to solve his hostage crisis. Sending in a helicopter and crew to be destroyed.
Nothing a little groveling and abject apologizing by our new commander-in-chief won’t make worse.