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Choosing the right targets is far more important than choosing B-52's or Cruise Missiles. I don't remember the post but JMA recommended the "Family relations" and I agree. Tell the hostage takers...

IMO it is just plain old kidnapping for ransom and that can be deterred...probably down to nothing.

This should be the SWJ quote of the week,month or whatever:)

Criminal, but I would respond like a gang would.

carl, I don't know how the FBI would/does train hostage negotiators to operate outside the US. I would assume that the culture is factored in somehow but to what extent I don't know. I went through a...

I thought the last line in the article was interesting, which basically said they may have been killed because the Pirates had a disagreement over what to do. Stranger things have happened.

Heres Ken fighting Pirates!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGK6az5ifZc&playnext=1&list=PL1A001612D1934B25

Ken, I agree it is a Law Enforcement problem but who would you send? Who has jurisdiction? On the high Seas (International Waters) doesn't that responsibility fall to the US Navy and Marines?

What about Keelhauling and Walking the Plank;) used to keep folks in line pretty good from what I have read. Marines would like that!

Actually I think it is in the Constitution, Art.1 Sec.8 both concerning the Navy, acts of Reprisal, and law on how to deal with captures on land and water.

You know what Russian waterboarding is? Walk the plank:D

That sounds like the waterboarding pirate defense:eek: