Mmmmm, this pizza is good. Somali pirates? We're talking about pizza here, don't distract me.
Posted on 04/11/2009 8:35:25 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
Somali pirates have hijacked a US-owned tugboat in the Gulf of Aden with 16 crew on board, reports say.
Maritime industry sources say the tug, which sails under an Italian flag, was towing two barges at the time of the attack, at 1100 local time (0800 GMT).
The crew are said to be unharmed. The US and Italian governments have not confirmed the hijacking.
Meanwhile pirates holding a US captain hostage have warned that using force to rescue him could result in "disaster".
The pirates said they hoped to transfer Capt Richard Phillips from a lifeboat to a bigger vessel, as US and other naval ships made their way to the area.
He is being held by four pirates hundreds of kilometres off Somalia.
In other developments:
- Sailors on a Panama-flagged bulk carrier repulsed a pirate attack with water hoses. Nato officials on a nearby Portuguese warship said an unexploded rocket-propelled grenade landed in the commanding officer's cabin
- On Friday, one Frenchman and two pirates were killed in a rescue operation by French troops on another vessel captured off Somalia. Four others, including a child, were freed from the yacht
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Order more pizza, maybe it will just go away.
Obama flies in caviar and Lobster tails in time for dinner. That’s about as close as he is going to get to Sea matters.
Soon to be followed by a third, fourth, fifth, and ...
That makes 20 Americans held hostage around the world. And the Obscenity in Chief struts the stage with his thumb in his butt.
Pizza time
Don’t worry our fearless leader has a “plan”.
Somalia needs to be turned into a 246,000 sq. mile parking lot.
That would pretty much take care of the pirate problem, and a lot of other problems too.
That’s right. We always talk about copy cat killers when there is a shooting at a school or something. But we will have open season on shipping now that they see that the O doesn’t have a brain cell in his head. In fact, his head is simply a place to hang his big ears, (with which he’ll “listen” to the grievances of the pirates and then send them large sums of cash).
Something tells me that soon Obama will hold a news conference, at which time TOTUS will solve the problem...Obama style.
I bet he’s regretting having Hillary as SOS. Otherwise he could blame this on Bill.
Gosh, its almost like they arent afraid of our Navy ships watching them. Every cop soon learns a sobering lesson, pointing a gun at someone *often* does not does not make them do what you say.
Obama getting sent to school by those Somalians. Not only do they know Obama, the all know they drove us out once under Clinton.
They DO, because the CAN.
He would have looked the pirates dead in the eye and said, "Harm one hair on an American's head and you'll be dead."
The end of hijacking American vessels.
Barry is such a wimp. He doesn't know if he should s**t or wind his watch.
Mmmmm, this pizza is good. Somali pirates? We're talking about pizza here, don't distract me.
Billy Ayers and his nautical metaphors are going to pay dividends when the time comes for TOTUS to actually address this.
The second Carter era continues.......
- Sailors on a Panama-flagged bulk carrier repulsed a pirate attack with water hoses. Nato officials on a nearby Portuguese warship said an unexploded rocket-propelled grenade landed in the commanding officer’s cabin
So the pirates have AK-47s and we are using water hoses against them. That would be OK if this were the first or second hijacking, but this has been going on for years. Time to fight bullets with bullets. Kill them all, let Allah sort them out.
Hillary cackled.
And the rest of the world is laughing at us, especially Iran, who is likely drawing inspiration from these pirates.
We have a UN resolution that we can go after Somalia. This is the opportunity to do so. Problem now is, they have leverage over us, and esp if they get that tug boat to shore.
I would blockage Somalia allowing no boats in or out of their port...to begin with...
Then once this is resolved with the two boats...get physical with them.
Why do I have this sudden sick feeling that we have another Janet Reno moment coming up here soon?
He would have sent warplanes over to destroy their bases of operation. It would have been loud and clear, his message.
A small quibble, but legally, it’s an Italian ship. It’s the flag it sails under that establishes jurisdiction.
Whether that makes any practical difference in this case, I don’t know.
What the hell happened to my country?
Funny, isn’t it that not one US ship was hijacked during Bush’s watch?
Why don’t any of these ships carry weapons? RPGs. Grenades. Automatic weapon. Any one of these, fired even half-assed would repel a hijack attempt. It is not a mystery that Somali pirates are out there, yet these big ships with valuable cargo and crew keep sailing through unarmed.
I have this sudden idea that this is Obama’s Iranian hostage situation that brought Carter down.
I don’t see us doing anything to save these guys....
Nada.
the pirate town of eyl, somalia
if you look at it in google earth, be sure to read the wikipedia link which has some interesting info
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=7.9634081,49.84758&z=16&t=h&hl=en
There’ll be more. Until the spineless communist in the White House responds with force (like that’ll ever happen), the enemy will be emboldened.
I have seen some videos of those ragtag Somali ragheaded "pirates" and they could be plunked off easily by a far superior Western team with good technology... probably, though, the operating companies of these shipping firms have insurance restrictions about having such folks on board with weapons. But I would imagine there are a lot of retired US military still in their prime and worth their salt that could, if appropriately armed,, oganized and financed teams, pull a good six month or so stint on some of these freighters for good pay and put some muscle into these vessels transitting the high seas.
If this is the “crisis” to test TOTUS that Biden warned us about, then we’re in worse shape than we thought.
Sadly I think you're right.
It’s deja vu all over again.(with apologies to Yogi Berra):
1)Carter had his Iranian Hostage crisis which finished off his presidency.
2)Obama now has his own brewing hostage crisis.
3)Both had the same ‘deer in the headlock’ look.
4)Russia flexing it’s muscles
5)Crappy Economy
History doesn’t repeat but it sure does rhyme(with apologies to Samuel Clemens).
Mah recudd is no longa safe...
I just hope the trend ends with another Reagan type Presidency.
Another situation
F*****
Up
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0bama
These thugs know we are without a leader. I figured these things would start to happen when President Bush left office.
I expect to see a lot of this over the next four years.
AS ALWAYS, OBOZOMAMAMA, HAS ABSOLUTY NO CLUE WHAT TO DO
To all you armchair quarterbacks, what would you do? To all those who think we should just bomb Somalia, you do realize the captain will die? They (the FBI and the US Navy) are trying to keep the captain alive. It is good Obambi keeps his mouth shut, for once he’s doing something right. He can only make things worse by mouthing off. There is no effective government in Somalia to deal with.
Imagine being an American OVERSEAS these days.
If you are not adequately weaponed up these days as an expat somehow, you are as sure as dead meat under this Obama.
He's not going to bend over backwards or put in a Saturday to get us Yanks overseas out of a jam. Word is spreading pretty fast.
Something like that.
Right. Those somali turd pirates would be floating belly-up in the sea.
Reagan would have solved this problem in 5 minutes which is what happens when you have a MAN who loves his country, or a woman who thinks like a MAN who loves his country, in charge.
According to the news, there have been no hijacked/pirated American ships in 200 years.
Very bad for the hostages but better that Kenyan Komrade 0 be put to the test now rather than later
I think 0 is down in Camp David right now sucking on a joint
Your Majesty!
Pirates to Obama:
“You’re Punked!”
“You *are* a Punk!”
“Kiss our Somali pirate asses, you punkety punk punk!”
“Nobody is going to come and save your ass, you punkety punk punk!”
“The world is lauhing at you, you chickenshit punkety punk punk wussy!”
“Look at what a bunch of pansies Americans have become, electing a chickenshit punkety punk coward, like this as their President! Ha-Ha-Ha!
BTTT
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