opiniojuris.org - 11/17/2008
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Somali pirates strike again, this time hijacking a Saudi-owned tanker off the coast of Kenya . The running stand off with the hijacked ship carrying arms and a Ukrainian crew continues; Russia announces that it repelled an attack on a different Saudi vessel. VOA describes the number of ...
online.wsj.com - 11/19/2008
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online.wsj.com —
Much has been said about the impact of
the credit crisis on U.S. auto makers, and whether
or not the government should assist the industry during this extraordinary financial turmoil. In these discussions, many critics simply ignore the substantial ...
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Why GM Deserves Support
mcclatchydc.com - 11/20/2008
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mcclatchydc.com —
WASHINGTON — Although the Pentagon officially has welcomed
the new accord on a U.S. troop withdrawal from
Iraq, senior military officials are privately criticizing President Bush for giving Iraq more control over U.S. military operations for ...
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Why the U.S. blinked on its troop agreement with Iraq
longwarjournal.org - 11/19/2008
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longwarjournal.org —
An unmanned US Predator aircraft attacked a Taliban
and al Qaeda safehouse in the Bannu Frontier Region
east of North Waziristan early today, according to reports from the region. At least five people were killed in the early morning airstrike, ...
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US Predator strikes al Qaeda & Taliban outside of ...
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Urging the Obama Administration To Kill Pirates:
The Volokh Conspiracy —
Sounds like good advice from Kenneth Anderson (Opinio Juris) : ["]International Maritime officials say at least 83 have been attacked off Somalia this year, with 33 of them hijacked. The pirates are currently holding about 11 ships, including a Ukrainian cargo vessel carrying 33 tanks.["] I’ll post more on this later, but let me put out a query now: Might piracy be a relatively easy place for the Obama administration to demonstrate its approach to use of force, multilateralism, and international law? ... Meanwhile, the British have instructed their navy to ignore pirates, out ...
KEN ANDERSON ON SOMALI PIRATES: “Might piracy be a relatively easy place for the Obama administrat
Instapundit —
... KEN ANDERSON ON SOMALI PIRATES: “Might piracy be a relatively easy place for the Obama administration to demonstrate its approach to use of force, multilateralism, and international law?” ...
International law query
The Reality-Based Community —
[image] International law query l tend to agree with Eugene Volokh and Kenneth Anderson that the Somali piracy problem might represent an opportunity for the Obama Administration to assert international leadership . I don't understand the operational issues here, but if Google Earth can show street traffic it shouldn't be hard to spot pirates. Apparently part of the problem is what to do with captured pirates, and in particular their potential asylum claims in whatever country catches and tries them. That raises a question. When a pirate ship is sunk by ...
Q Ships!
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
Kenneth Anderson proposes Q-ships to solve the problem of piracy: There are many legal questions here, of course. But I had a conversation with a US Navy officer, not a lawyer, but someone with operational duties, who suggested that the best military course of action would be to equip some number of civilian vessels as decoys - heavily armed and carrying marines. The best thing, he said, would be for Somali pirates to attack, and then be aggressively counterattacked, in a battle, not the serving of an arrest warrant - sink their vessel and kill as many pirates ...
Aaargh, Hillary!
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Confronting Somali pirates could be a testing ground for the next secretary of state. Well, she has handled Carville so a few Somali pirates shouldn't be too hard. ...
Pirates: We've Been Here Before
Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys.. —
... , Opinio Juris offers a suggestion of how the Obama administration can approach the piracy situation in the Gulf of Aden. He suggests decoy operations with civilian ships having a contingent of marines or other navy personnel to stave off an attack. Thus, increasing the risk to benefit factor for pirates who will have to begin wondering which ship is or is not a protected ship. He also suggests a second necessity of "multilateral action" which, given all history and current policies of other nations, is a likely non-starter. The US has used decoys against pirates and ...
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