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WanderAimlessly
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Looks like the bit off more than they could chew:
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gilliam
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Well, shiver me timbers!
(always wanted to say that)
(always wanted to say that)
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geezerbob
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Not too intelligent to start shooting at a cruiser and a destroyer. Doh!
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gilliam
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I take my Scouts to San Diego for ship tours every year. There is always a sailor on the stern of the ship manning a 50 cal. Their orders are that if a small boat comes close they fire warning shots (they are no where near where small boats are suppose to come close). If they see a weapon aimed at the ship, they fire on the vessel.
I would think the sailors patrolling those waters have the same orders.
By the way, we now have the technology to aim anti-missle defense cannons on small craft. If we did that, there would not be anything left of them.
I would think the sailors patrolling those waters have the same orders.
By the way, we now have the technology to aim anti-missle defense cannons on small craft. If we did that, there would not be anything left of them.
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Thekla
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Again with the pirates! The fact that “pirates” is still a word we use is absolutely amazing to me. The fact that there are still pirates amazes me even more. Aaargh…
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gilliam
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Thekla said:
I know a lot of sailors (the kind that sail boats around that are powered by the wind). There are MANY incidents every year where people are robbed by pirates and boats are taken by pirates. The Oceans are not tamed, by any means. But the biggest police force out there is the US Navy. Many, many, many fishermen, merchant marines and sailors of many, many, many nations depend on the diligence of the United States Navy too keep the oceans free (or as free as can be).
In places like the article talks about, the US Navy is active pacifying the waters.
Not too many people outside of sailors know about this ongoing story.
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Fitz
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I know more about this than I can say. However this is not an isolated incident. Google search Somalia and pirates and you will get years of incidents. They go way back and these waters are protected by many countries, the US included. There have been shipping boats held hostage for many months, people murdered, and ships shot at. Small private boats don’t have a chance. It is a very dangerous area, more so than the Persian Gulf if you can believe that. I would like to say more, but I am not at liberty.
Here are a few more recent incidents:
Suspected Pirates Captured Off Somali Coast
Story Number: NNS060121-01
Release Date: 1/21/2006 7:12:00 PM
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MANAMA, Bahrain (NNS) – At approximately 3 p.m. local time Jan. 21, the U.S. 5th Fleet captured a group of suspected pirates in the Indian Ocean, approximately 54 miles off the central eastern coast of Somalia.
After receiving a report of an attempted act of piracy from the International Maritime Bureau in Kuala Lumpur on the morning of Jan. 20, the guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) and other U.S. naval forces in the area located the vessel of the suspected pirates and reported its position. Churchill then shadowed the vessel through the night and into the morning of Jan. 21.
news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=22026
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Guar_Fan
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Very true. They have captured freighters bringing famine relief supplies, have used captured freighters to attack other cargo ships and even tried to attack a cruise ship a few months ago (it fended them off with some kind of noise cannon.)
Somalia is a failed state and can’t police its coastal waters.
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WanderAimlessly
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I wonder in Amnesty International will get involved. 
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vern_humphrey
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There’s a pirate in the Virginia Air and Space Museum in Hampton, VA. I was there when they found him.
The company I worked for had offices in “Old Hampton” (which is the oldest continuously-settled English town in the United States.) Before they built the Museum they did an archeological reconnaissance – and found a skeleton.
For a while, they were puzzled – there were no signs of any coffin, or other artifacts, and he was buried face down below the high water mark. Then the penny dropped – that’s how pirates were buried.
He was one of Blackbeard’s crew captured by Maynard and brought back to Hampton to hang.
The company I worked for had offices in “Old Hampton” (which is the oldest continuously-settled English town in the United States.) Before they built the Museum they did an archeological reconnaissance – and found a skeleton.
For a while, they were puzzled – there were no signs of any coffin, or other artifacts, and he was buried face down below the high water mark. Then the penny dropped – that’s how pirates were buried.
He was one of Blackbeard’s crew captured by Maynard and brought back to Hampton to hang.
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Geldain
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Arrrg!
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wabrams
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Yarrrrrr!
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MikeWM
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Interesting thing, pirates. Something that is, of necessity, covered by my old favourite international law.
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Al_Masetti
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Thekla said:
Visit www.cargolaw.com and click on the section on piracy.
Piracy is a HUGE problem, causing much death and loss of ships.
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beckers
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Check out the reader’s Digest from this month or next month…which ever one i just got in the mail…anyways…great story of some american’s fighting off the priates…
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Al_Masetti
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icc-ccs.org/prc/piracyreport.php
That’s the URL for the weekly piracy report. Scroll down to the bottom of that site for several other links.
And this is the URL for the annual piracy report:
icc-ccs.org/main/news.php?newsid=63
And this is the “Daily International Vessel Casualties and Pirates Daily Report”: [scroll down]
cargolaw.com/presentations_casualties.html
Piracy really IS a big deal. They board ships, rob the passengers and crew and if the cargo is worthwhile, the passengers and crew will be killed and thrown overboard and the ship taken to where the name can be changed (painted over) and the cargo removed. Very nasty business.
Not just Somalia… Malacca Straits is big – they took a hit from the tsunami… but they are still in business.
That’s the URL for the weekly piracy report. Scroll down to the bottom of that site for several other links.
And this is the URL for the annual piracy report:
icc-ccs.org/main/news.php?newsid=63
And this is the “Daily International Vessel Casualties and Pirates Daily Report”: [scroll down]
cargolaw.com/presentations_casualties.html
Piracy really IS a big deal. They board ships, rob the passengers and crew and if the cargo is worthwhile, the passengers and crew will be killed and thrown overboard and the ship taken to where the name can be changed (painted over) and the cargo removed. Very nasty business.
Not just Somalia… Malacca Straits is big – they took a hit from the tsunami… but they are still in business.
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Cactus
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Captain Jack Aubrey would know what to do with pirates.
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Al_Masetti
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domprep.com/Borders_%26_Ports/Coast_Guard/
The article above came in today on a security e-letter.
The title / abstract …
Modern Piracy: A “New” Global Threat to Security
Christopher Doane & David Moskoff
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Task Force 150 patrols Oman Gulf, east coast of Africa to thwart “international criminal networks,” possibly linked to terrorist groups and the smuggling of hazardous cargoes that are now disrupting seagoing commerce at an estimated cost of $16 billion annually.
An ancient form of terrorism on the high seas is reborn. U.S. and allied navies on patrol to protect merchant ships, cruise liners. Ship owners and operators install self-defense systems.
[Balance of the article is accessible by paid subscribers only… However, the e-newsletter has some interesting security related bits.]
The article above came in today on a security e-letter.
The title / abstract …
Modern Piracy: A “New” Global Threat to Security
Christopher Doane & David Moskoff
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Task Force 150 patrols Oman Gulf, east coast of Africa to thwart “international criminal networks,” possibly linked to terrorist groups and the smuggling of hazardous cargoes that are now disrupting seagoing commerce at an estimated cost of $16 billion annually.
An ancient form of terrorism on the high seas is reborn. U.S. and allied navies on patrol to protect merchant ships, cruise liners. Ship owners and operators install self-defense systems.
[Balance of the article is accessible by paid subscribers only… However, the e-newsletter has some interesting security related bits.]
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