He is of course correct. The common derogative for Somali bandits who have long plagued Kenya and other neighbors is "shurtah" (also pepper or police in arabic). The pirates are merely seagoing shurtah and the ships are seagoing merchants, the same as a Bedord lorry rolling down a broken trail in northern Kenya or earlier a camel convoy snaking through the same area.

But we cannot rename the Assymetric Warfare Group the Same Old ####e, now can we? What would the patch look like?

Tom