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So we impose a complete economic blockade on 10 million Somalis in order to address the problem created by c1,000 active pirates (0.01% of the local population)? We do so even at the cost of...

Not the first time that a "safe room" onboard has made all the difference...

http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00347/pg-20-dutch-marines_347995s.jpg

Dutch marines storm cargo ship...

From the US Institute of Peace:

Counting the Costs of Somali Piracy

By Raymond Gilpin

International Legal Responses to Piracy off the Coast of Somalia

By Eugene Kontorovich

The American Society of International Law
February 6, 2009
Volume 13, Issue 2

If commercial ships carried these, they wouldn't be able to dock in many countries. The complexities of dealing with the very different firearms regulations of a hundred or more maritime countries...

Apparently Chinese fishermen are:

China sailor recalls pirate fight

BBC News, 14:45 GMT, Friday, 19 December 2008



If the story is accurate, this sure took some cojones (or the Chinese...

Somali pirates hijack ship, British guards escape
By KATHARINE HOURELD – 28 November 2008

BBC News, Tuesday, 25 November 2008

Indian navy 'sank Thai trawler'

The Indians are no slouches when it comes to using force, or even projecting it into the Indian Ocean....

While I know "information" to this effect is reported in the October 2006 UN Monitoring Group report on Somalia, I'm aware of no credible evidence that it took place. Largely numbers of armed Somalis...

You'll find the ICC piracy reports here. They always make for interesting reading.

As they note: