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timesonline.co.uk - 11/12/2008

Royal Navy in firefight with Somali pirates

— timesonline.co.uk — Pirates caught redhanded by one of Her Majesty s warships after trying to hijack a cargo ship... off Somalia made the grave mistake of opening fire on two Royal Navy assault craft packed with commandos armed with machineguns and SA80 rifles. In the ... (more) Royal Navy in firefight with Somali pirates

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informationdissemination.blogspot.com - 11/25/2008

Are Pirates the Problem, or the Solution?

— informationdissemination.blogspot.com — Two of my favorite writers, Robert Farley and Thomas Barnett , have weighed in on Somali piracy,... and while I agree with every point made by both, I disagree with both writers regarding how to manage the issue of Somali piracy. It isn't that I ... (more) Are Pirates the Problem, or the Solution?

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forbes.com - 11/19/2008

Somali Pirates At Sea

— forbes.com — Somali pirates don't scare easily. Last month, they hijacked a Ukrainian merchant vessel loaded with tanks, heavy... weapons and ammunition, and still haven't relinquished control of the freighter to the American and Russian navy ships that have besieged ... (more) Somali Pirates At Sea

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What Will Obama Do About That Thuggish Band Of Bros Off The Somali Coast? - With Video
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — ... with it,” he said. (AFP) However, for some bizarre and unintelligent reasoning countries such as Great Britain have decided it would be mean and unPC to actually stop this piracy of expensive sovereign ships and their important and oft times dangerous cargoes … and, oh hey hell, why not give them (the pirates) asylum while they’re at it? Eh … Pirates can claim UK asylum by Marie Woolf - (Times Online) THE Royal Navy, once the scourge of brigands on the high seas, has been ...

Indian Navy Goes After Pirates
Ace of Spades HQ — ... onboard blasts — possibly due to exploding ammunition — and destroying the ship. They chased one of two speedboats shadowing the larger ship. One was later found abandoned. The other escaped, according to the statement. Larger "mother ships" are often used to take gangs of pirates and smaller attack boats into deep water, and can be used as mobile bases to attack merchant vessels. The British Royal Navy, once the scourge of pirates has been told to ignore the problem lest captured pirates press a claim for asylum . The Indians seem to have dealt with that problem nicely by ...

The Indians go Pirate-Hunting.
RedState: Conservative News and Community — It would seem that our allies have a firm grasp of the essentials, too. Do you have a problem with captured piratical prisoners trying to play the asylum game? Easy answer to that, as AoSHQ notes: don't take any. Indian navy sinks suspected pirate 'mother ship' NEW DELHI – An Indian naval vessel sank a suspected pirate "mother ship" in the Gulf of Aden and chased two attack boats into the night, officials said Wednesday, as separate bands of brigands seized Thai and Iranian ships in the lawless seas. ...

Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum
Belmont Club — ... being held captive by some of the pirates, who have been driven into the ship’s lifeboat, according to an American defense official. … Maersk Chief Executive John Reinhart said the company’s seafarers were well-trained to deal with the risks of piracy. “We have ways to push back, but we don’t carry arms,” he said. Readers will recall that the British Navy has been advised not to engage pirates on the grounds that if captured, the buccaneers can claim asylum in Europe. The Times Online reported that “the Royal Navy, once the scourge of brigands on the high seas, has been ...

Pirates can claim UK asylum
USS Neverdock — Well, terrorists can so why not pirates? Britain needs to withdraw from the EU as soon as possible.

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Belmont Club — Pity is a selective thing. Western navies are advised by lawyers that pirates must be given asylum if they are apprehended while hundreds of Indians, Pakistanis, Africans and Filipino seamen, working for a pittance, must languish in captivity while seized on the lawful occasions of their employers, without prospect of legal residency in Europe. The Times Online reports that the “Royal Navy, once the scourge of brigands on the high seas, has been told by the Foreign Office not to detain pirates because doing so may breach their human rights.” In the ...

Somalian Islamic Piracy and Britain's Uneducated Concerns
All articles at Blogcritics — ... of American cargo ship captain Richard Phillips, recently captured by Somalian Islamic pirates, engendered relief and joy in the US, the U.K. Foreign Office, according to ...