Comments on: WTF Wednesday: Pirates!

By: indian navy

indian navy — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:26:06 +0000

How do they do it? Basically, it’s a big ocean and no one wants to be top cop. NATO and the U.S. Navy say they can’t be everywhere, and American officials are urging ships to hire private security. Warships patrolling off Somalia have

By: supertanker

supertanker — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:06:40 +0000

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — In a dramatic escalation of high-seas crime, Somali pirates hijacked a Saudi supertanker loaded with crude oil hundreds of miles off the coast of East Africa — defeating the security web of warships

By: eyl somalia

eyl somalia — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:57:12 +0000

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The U.S. Navy on Monday confirmed that pirates seized the supertanker Sirius Star as it sailed in the Indian Ocean some 450 nautical miles south-east of the port of Mombasa, Somalia, with a full load of two

By: eyl

eyl — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:29:49 +0000

BOSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) – A Saudi supertanker hijacked by pirates with a $100 million oil cargo in the largest ever such seizure was approaching the north Somali coast on Tuesday, maritime sources said.

By: tish

tish — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:14:29 +0000

apparently the indian navy is doing something: Indian Navy destroyes a pirate "mothership" in the Gulf of Aden.

By: Paul Daniel Ash

Paul Daniel Ash — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:14:20 +0000

Tish Marie… you didn’t think I really wanted to send in the Navy, did you?

For what it’s worth, I’d love it if Somalia turned into a TAZ, but it’s seems like it’s more like Thunderdome with worse costumes…

By: tish

tish — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:05:10 +0000

oh please, i've been subscribed to the international crime services weekly piracy report email list for years and there isn't more piracy, just more publicity. like this recent nyt interview for example: "We don’t consider ourselves sea bandits. We consider sea bandits those who illegally fish in our seas and dump waste in our seas and carry weapons in our seas. We are simply patrolling our seas. Think of us like a coast guard.” I for one think pirates are like an informal tax code. Let the Navy keep doing what it's doing, nothing, and let the pirates keep doing what their doing, taxing international commerce.

By: michelle of bleeding espresso

michelle of bleeding espresso — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:08:02 +0000

In all seriousness, I agree with Robin; this *is* very well written and brings to light an aspect of American policy that few even realize exists. Economic and social stability in Africa is crucial to the world's well-being, and hopefully this, too, will be high on President-elect Obama's ever-growing to-do list. Also, The Buccaneer Stops Here.

By: Robin Easton

Robin Easton — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:44:09 +0000

Holy cow!! This is unbelievable. I too did not think pirates existed today! This is some wild stuff, and yet as I read further I realize how serious it is for the people killed or tortured or taken into slaver or the women raped. And with all the wars we start and get involved in and we can’t stop this? Makes me wonder who might be profiting from it going on. Very well written…and eye opening!

By: michelle of bleeding espresso

michelle of bleeding espresso — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:05:28 +0000

Forget the US government, I blame Johnny Depp and to a lesser extent Orlando Bloom.