Pirates' Shock As They Pick On The Wrong Ship

Burnsy2023 said:
That's quite amusing. We still need a bigger presence there though, with a more lax rules of engagement.
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Aye aye Commodore Burnsy. :cool:

arknor said:
they should just send jeremy clarkson over in a helicopter mounted with a chaingun and save some money
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...all we know is he's not the Stig. He's the Stig's pirate cousin! :D

arknor said:
i cant tell if hes happy , suprised , angry etc :D
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I'm going for constipated in that photo. ;)
 
Time for a massive naval blockade of the entire Somali cost, nothing in or out without going thru a check point. Anything that tries to run the blockade will be destroyed without warning.
 
Well, they've gone and done it now. Hi-jacking A US operated ship, with a completely US crew within range of the bulk of American fire-power in the region does not rank up there as one of the great ideas in the World.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
We need a bigger international task force under either NATO or UN command. The six ships in the EU taskforce is just too small, athough there are many more ships from other nations but there's no co-ordination. We need a wider reaching madate as well, attack the pirates on their own soil.
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Yep, agree.
 
Certainly would like to know the chain of events that would force the Pirates to jump over board. Maybe a baiting of some some where the crew were in fact Spec. Ops. :cool:

Would make the pirates think twice next time before they try and hijack a ship if this was the case. :eek:
 
Azagoth said:
Makes you wonder if the yanks have implemented something on their ships that would allow for this turn of events. A few containers are really a little base for a couple of squads of spec. ops., or there is a some sort of weapons cache on board for the crew.
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The Yanks were unarmed:


The ship was carrying emergency food relief to Mombasa, Kenya, when it was hijacked, the Copenhagen-based container shipping group A.P. Moller-Maersk said.

The vessel's manifest showed it was carrying 401 containers of food aid from USAID, Serving God Ministries, the World Food Program and Catholic Relief, said John F. Reinhart, president and CEO of Maersk Line Ltd

Merchant crews aren't supposed to fight pirates, short of using high-pressure hoses to try to stop them from climbing aboard, Reinhart said.

"They (the crews) don't have any weapons, so it would be inappropriate for them to try to be heroes. We'd like them to come home safely," he told a news conference.
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Source.
 
C.P said:
About time someone stood up to those pirates. All the naval ships in the area have been doing **** all.
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shows how much you know.
They're doing a good job with the resources they have, you could always fund sending more frigates out there if you fancied it though.
 
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