A not un-expected comment on the new EU flotilla being deployed to the Gulf of Aden: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...an-rights.html

What effect will this have on piracy? Little more than media hype and a few comfotable ships when escorted. If there are three hundred ships a day in the area, how about convoys or designated routes?

From the comfort of a landlubber's armchair.

davidbfpo