Pirates of the Arabian

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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e10892ba-b4a8-11...00779fd18c.html

 

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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e10892ba-b4a8-11...00779fd18c.html

 

 

 

They might have well walked into a vegas casino and demanded ownership.

They now have the "life expectancy of fruit fly's".

[justnzane]

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e10892ba-b4a8-11...00779fd18c.html

 

Arrrgh!!!!

 

I read this earlier in the BBC. I have to say that I am impressed that piracy is still alive in other areas besides the internet, let alone in the oceans. Good thing that this didn't happen 4 years ago, or we might have been back in Somalia.

[DC Tom]

Arrrgh!!!!

 

I read this earlier in the BBC. I have to say that I am impressed that piracy is still alive in other areas besides the internet, let alone in the oceans. Good thing that this didn't happen 4 years ago, or we might have been back in Somalia.

 

There's international treaties that govern the response to piracy. Recent treaties, maybe ten years old. It's a BIG problem.

 

Particularly around the Singapore Straits and South China Sea. Bad things, man...

[tennesseeboy]

Didn't our marines get their start fighting pirates? Shores of Tripoli and all that crap?

[olivier in france]

The UK, Germany and France have decided last week to have a permanent mixed military force around the Aden Gulf and the South of the Red Sea to protect the commercial ships on their way to and from the Suez canal.