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Obama Team Mulls Aims Of Somali Extremists
reuters.com - 4/11/2009
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(For full coverage of the pirate crisis, click
on [nPIRATES]) * Somali elders plan mediation mission *
Pirates seize U.S.-owned, Italy-flagged tugboat * Attack on another ship repelled by water-hoses * Pirates sailing German ship fail to find ...
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WRAPUP 4-U.S. navy eyeballs Somali pirates in hostage ...
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John Bolton on the New Barbary Pirates
Say Anything —
“I think that reaction is pathetic” - Former UN ambassador John Bolton on the Eric Holder/Barack Obama position on international piracy.
It seems that the Obama administration is falling back to the Clinton Era of “Let’s treat acts of war as legal infractions”. Earlier, it seems that the Navy, working under Obama’s instructions, missed an opportunity to end the hostage situation when Captain Richard Phillips jumped off the lifeboat, leaving his captors as what should have been a clear target for the Navy.
Expect the same diplomatic dithering that denied ...
Obama’s Reaction To Somali Pirates “Pathetic”
Flopping Aces —
Couldn’t of said it any better then John Bolton on Obama’s reaction to the pirate saga being played out. Treating it like a law enforcement issue, ala Bill Clinton, is the same kind of reaction that emboldened al-Queda. The captain of the ship jumped overboard to swim to safety and the pirates were a clear target to our Navy for god’s sake and they didn’t take the shot…..pure and utter bull: ...
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The Ramifications of Weakness: American hostages taken by Somali pirates
directorblue.blogspot.com 4/8/2009 — Somali pirates captured Maersk Alabama, a U.S. flagged container ship, along with 20 American crew members on Wednesday. This ship was reportedly carrying millions of pounds of relief aid to Kenya's port of Mombasa.The hijacking is the first to involve a United States-flagged ship and American ...
USS Bainbridge: Information On US Destroyer Tracking Somali Pirates
huffingtonpost.com 4/8/2009 — The American destroyer the USS Bainbridge is tracking a U.S.-flagged ship that was hijacked by Somali pirates. The crew of the hijacked ship managed to retake control from the pirates, however pirates are still holding the captain hostage in a lifeboat.
The USS Bainbridge is an Arleigh ...
Somali pirates hijack U.S. ship
jihadwatch.org 4/9/2009 — As we have shown here before , this piracy is jihad-related. What will Obama do? Offer to talk without preconditions with the pirates? "Somali pirates hijack U.S.-flagged container ship," by Daniel Wallis for Reuters , April 8 (thanks to all who sent ...
Bush Policy on Pirates: Um, Good Luck, Sailor
mahablog.com 4/11/2009 — The Right is blaming Barack Obama for Somali pirates , or at least the lack of a response to the Somali pirates. Short version: Barack Obama is Jimmy Carter .
I thought you might like to read a Wall Street Journal story about Somali pirates published while George W. Bush was still president: ...
Giggling Hillary Disgraces, Embarasses America —
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One of the commenters at YouTube said it all:
Doesn’t this cackling idiot or her grinning morrocan side kick realize that she’s refering to Morrocan pirates, ie; barbary coast.
Which we and the British fought a very long war against.
The Marine anthem refers to this ...
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