/dev/null Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e10892ba-b4a8-11...00779fd18c.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAUNCHCODE Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 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". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justnzane Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tennesseeboy Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 Didn't our marines get their start fighting pirates? Shores of Tripoli and all that crap? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olivier in france Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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