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Report: Somali pirates want U.S. Navy to back off
CNN ^ | November 2, 2007

Posted on 11/02/2007 1:06:28 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Pirates who hijacked a Japanese tanker off Somalia earlier this week are demanding a U.S. warship shadowing the vessel back off, the wife of the tanker's foreman said Friday.

"Apparently the navy ship was getting closer to them," Tess Villanueva, wife of the crew's foreman, Laureano, told The Associated Press in the Philippines. "The good news would be if they (pirates) leave the ship."

Villanueva said the information was relayed to her late Thursday by Redentor Anaya, vice president for operations of SeaCrest Maritime Management Inc., which recruited the Filipino crew for the Golden Nori.

Negotiations have started for the release of the Golden Nori, anchored in Somali waters with 23 crew members from the Philippines, South Korea and Myanmar, said Josefina Villanueva, Laureano's sister.

Josefina Villanueva said there had been no ransom demand from the pirates. "The talks are just starting. I think the pirates will later on demand something," she said.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: maritime; pirates; usn; yohoho
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1 posted on 11/02/2007 1:06:29 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Back off....Or... what? Kill the hostages and crew? Gonna do that anyway, aren’t you?


2 posted on 11/02/2007 1:07:37 PM PDT by Rick.Donaldson (http://www.transasianaxis.com - Visit for lastest on DPRK/Russia/China/Etc --Fred Thompson for Prez.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Negotiating with pirates, is like negotiating with Islamo-fascists and Communists. Send in Jimmy Carter...he will handle them just fine.


3 posted on 11/02/2007 1:08:22 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Send a seal team to get on board and kill all the hijackers


4 posted on 11/02/2007 1:08:47 PM PDT by steel_resolve (Think pitch forks.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

If we back off, it means Mr Harpoon is coming for a visit.


5 posted on 11/02/2007 1:09:13 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: steel_resolve

That would probably be like a walk in the park for them.


6 posted on 11/02/2007 1:10:24 PM PDT by stevio ((NRA))
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Seems tailor-made for SEALs.


7 posted on 11/02/2007 1:10:32 PM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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To: steel_resolve

I wonder how the Royal Navy would have handled this in the days of “wooden ships and iron men?”


8 posted on 11/02/2007 1:11:29 PM PDT by henkster (The dems have reserved your place on the collective farm.)
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To: EagleUSA

Or Jesse Hijackson.


9 posted on 11/02/2007 1:12:05 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Let’s just sign the LOST treaty and let the UN handle it. They’ll probably just put the pirates on several committees to bring them over to the right side.

The Human Rights Committee, the Anti-Slavery Committee, and the Safe Passage at Sea Committee would probably be suitable.


10 posted on 11/02/2007 1:13:07 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I like the witty solution of quickly bringing over some ROK ninjas to take out the pirates. Thus the headline could be “South Korean soldiers save North Korean ship from pirates.”


11 posted on 11/02/2007 1:13:13 PM PDT by Popocatapetl
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To: steel_resolve
"Send a seal team to get on board and kill all the hijackers"

sssshhhhhh! :)

12 posted on 11/02/2007 1:13:42 PM PDT by lormand
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To: EagleUSA

I’m pretty sure those Pirates are Muslims. Barbary Wars the sequel?


13 posted on 11/02/2007 1:16:45 PM PDT by SolidWood ("I knew my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol.")
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To: steel_resolve
The death penalty is cruel and unusual. Take them out into international waters and keel haul them.

If they survive then let 'em walk the plank and they can swim home. Of ourse, the terretorial limit is 100 miles.....

14 posted on 11/02/2007 1:17:31 PM PDT by Young Werther (Julius Caesar (Quae Cum Ita Sunt. Since these things are so.))
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To: steel_resolve

I like that.


15 posted on 11/02/2007 1:17:34 PM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Pirate statement: “YARRGH. Back off ye scurvy dogs!”


16 posted on 11/02/2007 1:18:16 PM PDT by SIDENET (Hubba Hubba...)
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17 posted on 11/02/2007 1:18:20 PM PDT by ari-freedom (I am for traditional moral values, a strong national defense, and free markets.)
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To: ZULU; EagleUSA; steel_resolve

Can we try what was suggested in post 3 first?


18 posted on 11/02/2007 1:20:17 PM PDT by magslinger (cranky right-winger)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
I've said before, and say it again: time to reintroduce the Q ship and rid the seas of modern pirates.

Here is an example, the USS Big Horn:

# Armament: 5 × 4 in (102 mm) 50 single purpose guns, 2 x .50 caliber (12.7 mm) machine guns, 5 x Thompson submachine guns, 5 x sawn off shotguns

19 posted on 11/02/2007 1:23:28 PM PDT by LRS (It's time to put Hillary on the 3:10 to Yuma...)
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To: magslinger

Treating terrorist pirates like that might be considered a war crime.


20 posted on 11/02/2007 1:28:22 PM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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