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- Autodidaddict, on 11/21/2008, -3/+66Maybe the RIAA has a solution they'd like to share with us.....
- NinaOdell, on 11/21/2008, -2/+39"...The Sirius Star, the biggest ship ever hijacked, and its 100 million dollar load of oil was seized last Saturday and taken to Harardhere, 300 kilometres (180 miles) north of lawless Somalia's capital Mogadishu..."
Holy schmoley! I thought they were just a ragtag bunch of guys with guns on fishing boats! What the hell? - mickstephenson, on 11/22/2008, -0/+35These guy's are not ***** hungry you IDIOTS they are ***** loaded! They are the same lawless Paramilitary groups that are ransacking Somalia dry and maintaining a constant state of instability.
- inactive, on 11/22/2008, -4/+35Does anyone think it's strange that that we're having pirate problems where there are like three full carrier group hanging around with nothing to do? I mean really. Pirates. While we've got a couple hundred boats of every kind around there wherever we want to deploy them. Is it only tickling my ***** alert?
- mickstephenson, on 11/22/2008, -0/+31They aren't stealing because they are hungry, they are stealing because they can get away with it because the country is basically lawless since no one can enforce it, this would be happening throughout Central and South America if they thought they could get away with it, without getting blown to pieces by the US Navy
- SawButter, on 11/22/2008, -0/+30They can try to put DRM in the oil.
- inactive, on 11/22/2008, -0/+27Well it's not like you can put it on E-bay or take it to the pawn shop.
- CamperBob, on 11/22/2008, -0/+21Christ in a Chevrolet. They took over a thousand-foot supertanker "because they're hungry."
Digg goes on forever, and the stupid never ends. - inactive, on 11/22/2008, -4/+25What the hell is wrong with you people? Are you too caught up in your pirate fantasies to get how bad this is?
- diggopolous, on 11/22/2008, -0/+19Oh yeah? That's quite a leap my friend.. I can see hijacking a food truck to bring back a meal to your hut, but to hijack a supertanker on threat of murder which they will carry out to bring back millions to their warlord mansions? Don't romanticize these murderers.
- mickstephenson, on 11/22/2008, -0/+18I don't think the pirates are the same poor people you see starving on the adverts, and I doubt they are robin hood types who steal from the rich so they can feed the poor
- NeoBanned, on 11/22/2008, -0/+17For sale...........one recently stolen tanker.............. comes with a hostage crew......
- jullietcharlie, on 11/22/2008, -0/+16http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MB3kJQoxzA&feature ...
$150 for an Ak 47.
"Kenyan Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula said Somali pirates had been paid 150 million dollars in ransom over the past 12 months, adding that this was fueling a global criminal enterprise."
With THAT kind of money I'd believe that these pirates are not some robin hoods but well-backed organized crime under the veil of the poor. - the2989, on 11/22/2008, -1/+15FTA:
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The pirates on Thursday gave the owners 10 days to pay a 25 million dollar ransom.
Speaking from the tanker, a pirate who identified himself as Mohamed Said threatened "disastrous" consequences should Vela International, shipping arm of the Saudi oil giant Saudi Aramco, fail to comply.
"The Saudis have 10 days to comply, otherwise we will take action that could be disastrous," he said.
He did not specify the threatened action but the 330-metre (1,000 foot) long tanker is carrying two million barrels of crude oil.
Environmental groups have warned of a huge catastrophe if oil from the super-tanker was released.
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Yeah, that would be a huge mess if they decided to blow it up or punch a whole in the side or something. - rolf, on 11/22/2008, -2/+15Capitalism must be the answer to that problem eventually, and I mean free and honest trade not handouts or theivery:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518 ...
And yes, I think these pirates should be seeing some Tomahawks coming right at them real soon. Eradicate them. Thomas Jefferson had to deal with the Barbary Pirates in his day and he was ruthless:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War - NeoBanned, on 11/22/2008, -0/+12I would ask for 300,000.00 just to get me out of my fixed rate mortgage.
- seltaeb4, on 11/22/2008, -0/+12***** 'em. There's only so much fresh water on the boat, and they'll soon be drinking their own piss to survive.
Surround them. Wait it out. - doublefelix, on 11/22/2008, -0/+11Actually, they are doing it for money. Pirates in general and Somalians in particular are anarchists.
- doublefelix, on 11/22/2008, -0/+11Who the ***** is going to have the balls to captain and crew an oil tanker if the last guys who did got nuked?
- rolf, on 11/22/2008, -0/+10Not really. Oceans cover what, 70% of the world? And how many people are there policing them day and night?
It's more amazing to me that there are bank robberies on land in this day and age (in USA) than that ocean-going piracy still exists. - CamperBob, on 11/22/2008, -2/+12It *is* that simple, Zeigy, and I don't understand why so many people don't think so. Nobody seems to be able to provide a reason why it's not "that simple." Instead of "It's not that simple, and here's why," we get "You're not a bad person, just an idiotic blowhard..." and "Sigh, if only it were that simple."
It's as simple as this:
1. Give the pirates their ransom.
2. Pirates leave the hijacked boat, and board their own boat
3. Sink boat
4. (No, the other boat. The one with all the pirates on it.)
5. Voila, no more pirates.
WTF is so hard about that? How in the world can _piracy_ of all things be a viable criminal enterprise anymore?
What are the Saudis doing with all the military tech we've sold them throughout the past few decades? - Lavarock, on 11/22/2008, -2/+12What the ***** are you talking about?
- fraggle35, on 11/22/2008, -0/+9I would imagine the S.A.S are already in the area, and every pirate on that ship is a dead man walking.
- mickstephenson, on 11/22/2008, -3/+12You are not a bad person, just an idiotic blowhard who lives in a tiny little Americocentric world who know's ***** all about anything and doesn't care to know. No scratch that actually, you are a bad person.
- inactive, on 11/22/2008, -6/+15Perhaps, but they seem to be selling it in the media like a new war on black african pirates. It's suddenly the next big problem. African imperialism is on the agenda for the obama administration. He's the man to win african hearts and minds and china is building an imperial presence there that we're not going to let happen. This is the first ***** step in setting the british colonial system back up again. "Pirates" are the next shadowy cave dwellers that we have to go after i.e. steal their *****. Pirates... the new arrrrrrrgggg sama bin laden. Watch.
- passedoutghost, on 11/22/2008, -0/+8With the global economic crisis screwing me over, I need to get in on this action.
*packs bags for Somalia* - Ruger11mcrdpi, on 11/22/2008, -0/+8Wow there's a lot of stuff being thrown around here. It doesn't matter how many warships we have there, that doesn't simplify things. This is not an easy to recognize blue water navy we are fighting, its more akin to the insurgency in Iraq or Afghanistan. In this narrow, littoral area you have 20,000+ major foreign flagged trade ships passing through each year. This occurs amongst hundreds of local fishing boats, junks, transports, etc. Often times the pirates are operating out of the same ports as civilian merchants and fishermen, as well. It's a huge problem. and every single option has some negative side.
1) bombing their ports would result in civilian casualties
2) putting armed guards on the cargo ships would work, but there's 20,000 a year! you'd need an army
3) UAVs operating would see so much cluster that they wouldn't know who was a pirate and who was a local boat
4) the big warships are actually putting themselves in a lot of danger as operating in littorals is extremely hazardous for our navy, doesn't matter how many $900M DDG-51's we've got there.
5) putting civilian blackwater types in there, even though we're doing this... that's sending American mercenaries to fight african pirates hijacking Russian and Saudi cargo ships. There's going to be negative fallout, not the least of which over the enormous price tag.
6) setting up a mile-wide "corridor" marked with bouys through which only cargo ships pass... it would work but then you'd have to have the force in place to actually enforce and protect that corridor, and everyone would lose confidence in it if they got just one ship.
I say send in a Marine MEU, and helo out one 0311 squad onto each cargo ship... do this till they've killed most of the pirates. The MEUs are already floating around over there, and it would be good training for the Marines. - rolf, on 11/22/2008, -1/+9Check the map:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=africa
The two places are ~1250+ miles from each other.
It's like arguing the British will attack Florida by having a bunch of ships converge on New Jersey. Plus I'm pretty sure there is already some American naval might close by because of Iran's neighbor, Iraq. - medfreak, on 11/22/2008, -0/+7Stop pirating the ***** comments. Support the original commenter!
- zoziw, on 11/22/2008, -1/+8$25 million??? By this time next week the oil they have won't be worth that much.
- JimPuchai, on 11/22/2008, -0/+6Quite correct. And if the SAS don't get them, all the different armed gangs looking for a piece of the action in hard currency surely will. As a backstop to that, the town is also filling up with armed Islamic militants who are royally teed off that these guys stole a Saudi Arabian tanker.
- TheBigBad, on 11/22/2008, -1/+7Feed them a couple cruise missiles.
- abrasion, on 11/22/2008, -1/+7Yep, we're pretty sure.
"300 kilometres (180 miles) north of lawless Somalia's capital Mogadishu..."
Go look it up on google maps, that's MILES away from Iran. - Midtowner, on 11/22/2008, -1/+7The biggest supply of food those folks have is fish. I doubt they'll do anything to the tanker unless they just don't grasp one of the most basic tenants of human survival, i.e., "you don't ***** where you eat."
But power to 'em if they want to basically make their coastal areas uninhabitable, I suppose that's one way of solving the piracy issue. - Ph03N1X418, on 11/22/2008, -0/+6Paying the ransom will just encourage them; kill them all.
They want to keep screwing around with the rest of the world; they're going to have to learn the hard way. - eq2s, on 11/22/2008, -0/+6Blowing up a tanker with filled two million barrels of crude oil would be very difficult to clean up.
- Wilsomatic, on 11/22/2008, -0/+6The company either loses $25 million in ransom or $100 million in oil.
I think it would be easier to just pay the ransom. And the pirates probably think that too. - SteelChicken, on 11/22/2008, -0/+5You need moar hugz
Go find a pirate and hug him - Rapter09, on 11/22/2008, -1/+6Don't forget the tank-mounted laser beams.
- bobbknight, on 11/22/2008, -0/+5They are for lack of a better term tribal, kind of along family lines.
Of course this is a money thing, from money springs power and respect.
The whole of the African Continent is tribal.
Everyone wants to be the boss, no one the ditch digger.
That's why it's hard to sit them down and have a chat.
Much like the pirates of old these pirates need to be blasted out of the water. - Kyan, on 11/22/2008, -0/+5Hope you have written your will.
- phantomfiles, on 11/22/2008, -0/+5No one is hungry in the coastal region of Puntland, its the home of extremely rich and politically protected pirates.
- jabbajabba, on 11/22/2008, -1/+6The war on piratism, piriatists, 21/11, weapons of mass pollution...
- Ahnteis, on 11/22/2008, -0/+5They're holding their own because no one wants that kind of environmental mess. It's terrorism for profit. I have 0 admiration for them. It's like admiring a gang-banger who threatens to beat up some defenseless teenager if the cops won't give him money.
- inevitablity, on 11/22/2008, -0/+5Because its not enough.
- Naieve, on 11/22/2008, -1/+5Tell me how we are going to feed the hungry when the people we send there to do it are attacked by warlords who use the food to hold control over the people?
If we sent in troops to make sure we could get food to the needy, you would be screaming about a war.
Go research Zimbabwe if you want to begin understanding Africas problems. It was once the "breadbasket of Africa"... - lacronicus, on 11/22/2008, -0/+4No, they're going to *try* to hold their own against all these other nation's navies.
I can tell you right now, they're going to fail. - overridemymind, on 11/22/2008, -1/+5I really really really hope you're joking.
There is, in point of fact, such a thing as overkill. A nuke in this case would be overkill. Tomahawk cruise missiles would take care of things the same way a nuke would (kill the pirates with a large 'asplosion), without all the ramifications that come with using a nuclear weapon. - CamperBob, on 11/22/2008, -1/+5THEY HAVE TO GET OFF THE TANKER AT SOME POINT. KILL THEM THEN.
Sorry, but for some reason, I seem to be the only person who can see that.
Who knows, maybe these pirates have perfected teleportation technology, and *I'm* the idiot. -
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