Posted on 04/19/2009 11:54:46 PM PDT by darkness78
Three times since April of last year Somali gunmen have seized pleasure boats with French passengers and crewsand all three times, including just last week, the French have negotiated, stalled (in the first case even paid a ransom), then attacked. The French response to Somali piracy is now so well known that "in Puntland they talk about avoiding 'the French option'
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Important to the pirates, maybe.
Once again, only the elimination of the industry and its players will work. Mollycoddling them will not. If they are trying to sieze a vessel, make chum out of them.
Sarkozy has given back that once great nation of culture (admittedly)..
some dignity back.
God for him and his mega hot wifey.
The French are taking a more forceful approach that we are? That’s just embarrassing....
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