[Pan_Yan]

Where does one look to hire pirate hunters? Yellow Pages? Craig's List? More importantly, are they hiring? Do they supply the weapons or just the ammo?

[Enterprise]

And I always thought Puntland was where old NFL kickers go to retire.

[Jolla]

Probably the local EDD (unemployment office) anyone walking out smiling, has a few more months to lay around, the ones that look like they just heard someone speaking greek are available.

[Pan_Yan]

According to another article it is a company called Saracen International which is training Puntland soldiers. They are being paid by an ‘undisclosed muslim country.’

[SeeSharp]

...a country devastated by war and poverty.

And by the Chinese poaching their fish to near extinction within Somalia's 200 mile economic exclusion zone. The Somali fishermen only became pirates and started raiding ships after the Somali government disintegrated and stopped policing the fisheries.

[Traveler59]

Why not use the Russian MO for dealing with pirates? So far there haven’t been any repeat offenders.

[Traveler59]

Why not use the Russian Navy’s MO for dealing with pirates? So far there haven’t been any repeat offenders.