I hope the pirates don’t read UPI, because now they would know one of their methods has been compromised....
It would obviously be easy to kill a number of these pirates, but it seems that people in high places have decided that it is less costly to just pay ransom.
Takes money to make money. I'm remind of both the comic strip villains and 'some' in our current government(s).
Should also include the media. They are culpable due to their bias and omissions.
Londonistan.
Shouldn’t be hard to flush out the perps.
Should be pretty easy to incorporate counter intelligence and misdirection. Lead them to a valuable “cargo” ship full of Marines. It would take only one or two more hijacks for the piracy to stop.
Too bad nobody will do anything about it. We have pirates, gangs, and terrorists because people are too afraid to take the steps that will really end the problem.
It’s alright, all these ships have pirate insurance, so it doesn’t matter if the crew is kidnapped at gunpoint, forced to live in horrid conditions, as the insurance company will pay the ransom and everything will be fine...
Huh, kinda like how we treat healthcare in this country.. Wonder what’s going on with the ship insurance? Oh, right, it’s going up.