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Thanks for keeping us posted on this David. It is unusual that all the surviving crewmen seem to have been rescued yet some of the pirates were killed. Good job I guess.

Here is an interesting story I found over at Information Dissemination. They seem to have a lot of those.

http://www.livemint.com/2011/07/08203647/Piracy--Floating-wrecks.html?h=B

It is...

David:

This is the first I've heard of it, can't really comment on its validity and posted it mainly as a discussion point. If it is true there isn't anything those guys won't stoop to, and if it...

The following was posted on the Information Dissemination blog today. (http://www.informationdissemination.net/)


Lord in heaven, what's next?

Here is an item from Information Dissemination based on a Navy Times article about the crew of a U.S. Navy helo destroying a pirate skiff and killing 4 pirates as they were attacking a merchantman. ...

Courtesy of the SWJ twitter feed thing, here is a link to a story about a compressed air cannon meant to protect merchantmen from the restless youth of the coast of the area that used to be Somalia....

An interesting link to Feral Jundi that discusses security companies setting up maritime police forces.
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I am at a loss for words on this one. It sort of reminds me of a slang term gangbangers have for innocents who get cut down in drive by shootings. The yuts call them "mushrooms" because they just...

Well Mr. MFB, I would say that to the victims of the pirates, poor men almost all, some of them very poor, piracy is the most important thing happening on the seas from close inshore to hundreds and...

A sarcastic comment concerning something MFB said transmogrifies itself into my words. Geesh, no wonder you were able to make a pretty awesome counterargument.

This is great fun of course but as...

Let's see, how did we end up here?

(Ok. Motorfirebox asked what are the pirates doing that harms the society of Somalia, which implied that if what they did did not harm the society of Somalia it...

Tequila:

Hmm. Let me refine that a little.

Now there is a philosophy upon which to build an enduring legal tradition-if it doesn't immediately hurt me or mine, it's ok.

Now there is a philosophy to build an enduring legal tradition upon-if it doesn't hurt me or mine, it's ok.

How about this. We will convene a universal conference to ultimately determine who did what to whom when. It will also determine what penalties are to be exacted and how they will be divided up. ...

Motorfirebox:

I wouldn't say my position is '"I don't care how Somalis live, or don't, so long as they leave us alone."' as much as it is "I don't care how the pirates operating from the coast of...

Good morning Motorfirebox. How are you today?

When I lived in Kinshasa, we used to marvel at how the people made a living. I don't now if they even kept employment statistics, but if they had,...

Entropy:

Only a guess by me, but I think partly for the same reasons our inside the beltway mandarins don't, as I listed before. Partly it is because they don't have the wherewithal. Partly...

Political correctness. The fact that most of our betters inside the beltway have spent their entire lives in plush, safe, secure surroundings, completely isolated from the hard realities of life; so...

Entropy:

Actions do have consequences, but inaction has consequences also. The consequences of inaction we are seeing and they may get more interesting now that the pirates think they can take on...

You guys are probably already doing so but check out Galrahn's latest twitter posts about all this. Apparently the pirates have decided to provoke India.
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M-A: Good points ref the ability to do the old fashioned pirate business of steal and sell.

Here is a link to an Information Dissemination piece describing recent naval actions against the pirates.
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I think Fuchs was talking about ransoms for people not ships. Sad to say most people don't care about Filipino crewman.

If the pirates did take a ship with the specific idea of grabbing people to...

Entropy:

There is plenty going wrong right now.

There wouldn't be just PMCs. The Ukraine might decide it needs to station a naval squadron in the area, Eritrea and Somaliland might suddenly...

One reason Fuchs' idea is a good one is it would knock the structure from beneath the status quo. Quo no mo. (I couldn't resist) Things would change.

If the pirates did take an especially...