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Based on what I have read and heard, this habbit of being nice to their hostages until the ransom is paid is largely a Somali phenomenon. Reports from other areas of heavy pirate activity, seem to...

Found this posted over at PS.com. The other seems to know what he's talking about, as opposed to all the various partisans on both sides.

SFC W

This is one of the most ridiculous statements I have heard about Somalia. If Somalia had "authorities" then they wouldn't have many of the problems that they do now. Somalia has no credible central...

My question now, based on the article posted by davidbfpo, is what are they going to do with pirate that was captured alive? Where can he be tried?

SFC W

I'm a little unclear about this situation. I saw a discovery channel show about this awhile back and if memory serves it is illegal to have armed security on these ships (I remember one crew running...