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Defense secretary: Killed Somali pirates were "untrained" teenagers ("No Military Solution")
China View ^ | 4/13/2009 | Mu Xuequan

Posted on 04/13/2009 3:27:57 PM PDT by tobyhill

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Monday that three Somali pirates who were killed by the Navy's Seals to end a hostage crisis were "untrained" teenagers.

Addressing an audience at the Marine Corps War College in Quantico, Virginia, Gates said that the slain pirates, aged at between 17 to 19, were heavily armed but inexperienced.

They were shot dead on Sunday at the end of a five-day standoff with the U.S. military after they attacked a U.S.-flagged cargo ship about 400 kilometers away from Somali and held an American captain as hostage.

"As long as you've got this incredible number of poor people and the risks are relatively small, there's really no way in my view to control it unless you get something on land that begins to change the equation for these kids," Gates told students and faculty members.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antiamerican; ashoura; bho44; bhodod; bhosecdef; hateamericafilth; liberals; maritime; pirates; quantico; robertgates; rop; somalipirates; trop
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To: tobyhill

Untrained teenagers? Don’t let Moneybags Murtha find out.


121 posted on 04/13/2009 4:20:25 PM PDT by DPMD (~)
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To: tobyhill
Gates said that the slain pirates, aged at between 17 to 19, were heavily armed but inexperienced.

Good, if they're inexperienced, untrained teenagers they will be easier for our people to kill.

How did the seafaring nations of the world get into this state of mind that seems apologetic for freeing the innocent victims of murderous pirates because they (the pirates) are plying their trade out of the ports of poor 3rd world nations? Does this mean that raiding, robbing, murdering, and kidnapping on the high seas is acceptable if the pirates are poor and young?

Not to me it isn't, and if I was in charge I would bring any pirates our navy captured back to a US port and hang them from a gibbet on the wharf for public viewing as the custom was in 17th and 18th century England.

If anyone who has read my previous FR posts thinks that I am betraying the Biblical principles that I often refer to, read the book of Exodus and see the penalty that God prescribes for thieves and murderers. Hanging is a merciful means of execution compared to stoning.

122 posted on 04/13/2009 4:20:28 PM PDT by epow (Liberals aren't liars because they lie, they lie because they're natural born liars.)
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To: tobyhill

If someone was holding an AK-47 to my back, and they got shot in the head, I’d be pretty happy. Untrained teenager or not.


123 posted on 04/13/2009 4:20:49 PM PDT by popdonnelly (The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by governments. You've been warned.)
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To: marmar

It was nice to see such accurate shooting from our men. Here’s to hoping for a future full of dead pirates/jihadis.


124 posted on 04/13/2009 4:21:10 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: tobyhill

It makes a difference to their victims if they’re untrained v. trained ? Or if they’re 16 v 25 ?

I am so damned out of sympathy.


125 posted on 04/13/2009 4:21:11 PM PDT by EDINVA ( A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul -- G. B. Shaw)
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To: Seven plus One
Oh yeah baby!!! I have some vids taken by buds in Afghanistan of those things destroying villages in a nano second. That is some serious fire power... and I love the sound of that cannon!

LLS

126 posted on 04/13/2009 4:22:01 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my President... NEVER!!!)
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To: LibLieSlayer

So was Scotland, and most of Europe.

Frankly, if you pay money, and don’t defend yourself, you are not safe in America. Everything else is superficial.

Incentives matter.


127 posted on 04/13/2009 4:23:26 PM PDT by Leisler ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged."~G.K. Chesterton)
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To: tobyhill
there's really no way in my view to control it unless you get something on land that begins to change the equation for these kids

No problemo...

The knowledge that a full ration of professionally-aimed-and-delivered hot lead awaits you will have an amazingly salutary and prophylactic effect on those wayward teenagers...

128 posted on 04/13/2009 4:23:43 PM PDT by Zeppo (Save the cheerleader, save the world...)
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To: lacrew
He was on a prayer rug Easter evening... facing mecca and praying for forgiveness.

LLS

129 posted on 04/13/2009 4:24:08 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my President... NEVER!!!)
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To: catbertz

To avoid being tried for War crimes, Bo has ordered that all little skinny types aiming an AK47 at you must be asked “Are You a teenager and if so, have you been trained”...before they are fired upon.


130 posted on 04/13/2009 4:25:35 PM PDT by TET1968 (SI MINOR PLUS EST ERGO NIHIL SUNT OMNIA)
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To: pissant

I was thinking the very same thing the other day, piss. Heaven help us these next four years.


131 posted on 04/13/2009 4:27:00 PM PDT by Miss Behave ("Easter SEALs!!!" ~ FReeper Choose Ye This Day)
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To: Cheetahcat

Lets just fly gates over in a Blackhawk and kick his ass out “treeline” in Adis Ababa.

LLS


132 posted on 04/13/2009 4:29:18 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my President... NEVER!!!)
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To: tobyhill

Bob Gates just scored a walk on to the Oprah show. Watch it happen.


133 posted on 04/13/2009 4:29:18 PM PDT by TADSLOS
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To: pissant

Yep, those Warriors make me proud...we also have to protect them by not letting these unpatriotic scum, that is now in control of our White house........


134 posted on 04/13/2009 4:29:56 PM PDT by marmar ((Although, I may look different then you....my blood still runs..RED, WHITE, & BLUE. RETIRED USAF))
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To: Rebelbase

LOL! I guess those three couldn’t read the training schedule.


135 posted on 04/13/2009 4:30:17 PM PDT by TADSLOS
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To: tobyhill

MOst murderers are untrained, duh. Do you know anyone who went to Pirate School?


136 posted on 04/13/2009 4:31:42 PM PDT by tiki (True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
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To: Yorlik803

YES, Yorlik. Disgraceful.


137 posted on 04/13/2009 4:32:33 PM PDT by Miss Behave ("Easter SEALs!!!" ~ FReeper Choose Ye This Day)
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To: LibLieSlayer
Actually ?
It was Benedict Arnold who really won that battle ( the battle of Saratoga ) but ? just as Obama now ? Gen Gates took credit for it, and managed to ruffle some feathers in the Continental Congress to have George Washington replaced by ( you guessed it ... himself ) it was called the CONWAY CABAL , and we could have very well lost that war because of the BS that those few men caused.
138 posted on 04/13/2009 4:34:17 PM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM .53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart, there is no GOD.)
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To: Miss Behave

Ok, it’s time for the pirates to go to school.

Don’t mess with American ships, it will get you killed.
Don’t mess with French ships, it will get you killed.

Next lesson...

Pirates have guns and snipers have guns...
Pirate vs. sniper = very dead pirate

SCHOOL’S OUT, ENUFF SAID!


139 posted on 04/13/2009 4:34:29 PM PDT by Jammz ("The only thing needed for evil to prevail, is for good men to do nothing.")
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To: tobyhill
"...Gates said that the slain pirates, aged at between 17 to 19, were heavily armed but inexperienced."

Should have stayed in school and studied the



the text book more.
140 posted on 04/13/2009 4:34:32 PM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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