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The BBC reports has a new pirate attack against a US vessel here



What I find most interesting in the article is this :

DoD News release "adds to the weapons to combat piracy"



I wonder what force this has in international law if the pirates are captured outside Kenyan territorial waters and/or are preying on...

Folks may not like the German contribution to NATO efforts in A-Stan, but this article shows promise of the support in the pirate venue.

Stan,

Can't disagree with your thoughts, especially since you have BOG experience that I lack. From what I read about Africa, I am reminded of how I saw Okinawa a year after reversion--seemed the...

Stan,

I wrote "Let folks apply the principle of self-determination." There's a lot of stuff packed into the words "let" and "apply." They need to be in what some folks call a "free speech ...

I believe that we could summarize this whole post as "Let folks apply the principle of self-determination." Western paternalistic attempts to help out the world's "poor and downtrodden," inspired...

I was thinking that the salient points made by Stan and reinforced by Tom and Ken may have much to do with this thread. But of course the rub is that in this second area, at least one of the...

Here's a great story from Hurriyet on-line.

Who'd a thunk the Indian Navy would be the guys to strike this kind of blow?

Even if you catch a break in the auction and get one at a low price, shipping costs could be a little steep. :D

Or perhaps been directed to do so to generate a causus belli to justify a military strike.

Actually, I understand that this yacht does a winter round in the Seychelles area then transits the Suez...