voanews.com - 4/10/2009
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Somalia's new government says it would be able to deal decisively with the piracy problems off its shores if the international community would provide logistical support and supervision to its navy. This comes after Somali pirates defied international naval powers and are holding hostage the ...
foxnews.com - 4/12/2009
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Sunday, April 12, 2009 American sea Captain Richard
Phillips was safely rescued from four Somali pirates Sunday,...
a U.S. intelligence official said. Three of the pirates were killed and one was in custody after what appeared to be a swift firefight ...
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washingtonpost.com - 4/11/2009
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Obama Team Mulls Aims Of Somali Extremists
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And we sailed the seas of green in a yellow submarine
Belmont Club —
The Somali government says the rampant piracy along its coasts can be suppressed, if it is given the money to do so. The VOA reports: Somalia’s new government says it would be able to deal decisively with the piracy problems off its shores if the international community would provide logistical support and supervision to its navy. This comes after Somali pirates defied international naval powers and are holding hostage the capital of an American ship on a lifeboat in the Indian Ocean. The pirates tried to hijack U.S ship Maersk Alabama Wednesday, but Captain Phillips thwarted ...
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... in Somalia actually includes some more moderate ICU members, and they've vowed to deal with the piracy problem, if they get some funding help. But the hardliners in the al-Shabab movement continue to fight. The Obama Administration apparently ...
Perdicaris Alive and Raisuli Dead!
The Corner on National Review Online —
... : "You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way!" In all the discussion of how to respond to the larger piracy problem arming merchant ships, more naval patrols, assaults on the port towns pirates operate from it remains the case that the core problem is the lack of government in Somalia. I loved this headline to a recent VOA story : " Somali Government Ready to Resolve Piracy Problems" Somali's internationally recognized "government" doesn't even ...
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