Against Maritime Law? So is piracy. Piracy will go on and on as long as our president keeps the "Come and get it" policy of no armed security.
Posted on 04/11/2009 9:29:36 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
In spite of the news media distancing the recent attack on a cruise ship off the coast of Somalia from global terrorism, intelligence experts believe this is just the latest operation initiated against the United States and the West by Al-Qaeda.
Recently a failed assassination attempt on the prime minister of Somalia, as well as the attempt to hijack a luxury American cruise ship, has intensified apprehension and fear that the shaky Somalian government is losing to Al-Qaeda and Wahhabi terror groups.
Three people were mortally wounded in a terrorist attack on the Prime Minister, Ali Mohamed Gedi,while he was visiting the war-torn capital of Mogadishu. He survived the deadly encounter which entailed an explosion set off near his convoy, according to security experts. Mr Gedi was merely visiting since his government is in quasi-exile in Jowhar. The danger in the Somali capital is so great that the transitional government must avoid setting up their headquarters there.
Since 2003, Somalia has witnessed the growth of a brutal network of Jihad with strong ties to Al-Qaeda. In fact, when the US forces faced a bloody battle in 1995 during what became known as the Black Hawk Down incident, it was Al-Qaeda joining with a local warlord who killed and wounded US special operations soldiers.
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Obama’s Waco
Obama is not at War with Islam so it dosn’t count.
Let’s apprehend the perps alive, and then torture them until they tell us who they are working for.
Nope His Imperial Majesty King Obama the first will Apologise for illegally detaining the Somalis at sea. Pay an out of court settlement and offer them citizenship.
sarc off
This is embarrassing for the US, but then the USA elected NObama.....
Now, there’s a surprise—NOT.
Be sure to say thanks to Minnesota Somalis who disappeared.
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Who is this guy Allah?
Against Maritime Law? So is piracy. Piracy will go on and on as long as our president keeps the "Come and get it" policy of no armed security.
I like Dennis Miller’s idea: since these guys want to be “pirates”, when we capture one we should amputate a leg and give him a peg.
Funny thread! I found myself laughing even though I should be outraged. This clown is so far in over his head, his toilet paper is purchased in China..
ROFLM AO: Who is this guy Allah?
and how come yer allah time talkin’ bout him.
THIS IS BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE AFTER
COULD RACE, COLOR OR RELIGION BE PLAYING A ROLE IN THE CHANGE IN BEHAVIOR TOWARD THE POOR, DESPERATE, MISUNDERSTOOD MUSLIM SOMALI PIRATES??
PERISH THE THOUGHT!!
Do you suppose someday Disneyland will have a “Pirates of the Horn of Africa” ride?
Now, now. Those Somali-Americans are contributing richly to American culture, as Muslims always have. I'm sure hundreds of them are lining up to serve as interpreters and CIA undercover agents as we speak. /S
I think corpses of pirates were also gibbeted—placed in cages so their rotting remains would not be carried off by varmints, and displayed in public places like the shorelines of port.
Ummmm..., talk about Jihad... look at this list I posted yesterday... Reagan has his “jihad” to deal with... :-)
A previous post of mine below...
Well, an interesting thing happened on the way to Free Republic for me, yesterday..., it just started with a simple post yesterday and two little items on it... I never intended for the following list to come about... LOL...
Here’s where it all started, and then some FReepers started giving me some more events.. :-)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2226437/posts?page=5#5
THEN... it turned into this...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2226437/posts?page=43#43
It’s a good comparison of what Obama is doing now, and you can compare it to what Reagan did in his terms in office (Oh wow!...)...
> SOMALI PIRATES TIED TO JIHAD
Ya think?
Where do you suppose the money goes?
Straight to Hamas, a-Qaeda, etc.
Religion of Peace strikes again. Obama's not at war with Islam, while they continue enriching Somalia.
Better yet-—exchange himself for the brave Captain.
Maybe 0boz0 can exchange $inator Kerry for the Captain.
Then Kerry can “nuance” the Somali Pirates into submission or a painful near death experience due to listening to him.
Just read the FoxNews crawler. It says that Obama may bring criminal charges against these pirates. OOOOOOOOOOh.
Have the pirates waived their Miranda rights?
Article 1, Section 8:
"The Congress [i.e. Pelosi, Reid, ex-Sen. Obama, Biden, Clinton, etc. who all swore to uphold and defend the Constitution] shall have power: ...
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations..."
It has guns fore and aft. They would have sufficed, but with the automation and small crews of newer vessels something newer is desirable. A couple of remote controlled guns with auto-loaders, cameras and lasers for aiming and video game style interface could be run by some one on the bridge or some safer duty station. Design them so they can't be fired manually, but only via computer with e-security and all the latest liberal "smart gun" technology so the pirates couldn't fire them; there would be time to activate these guns via such unlike hand gun issues. The home office could temporarily disable them via satellite when entering ports and the system could broadcast that fact to local authorities; have Hillary get local and international laws modified to permit such. The technology exists and a cheaper, less robust than full military, version could probably be whipped up fairly quickly. Deploy them just on US flagged ships sailing in at risk areas. As there are only 200 US flagged ships, most of which sail just in US waters or, to and from AK and HA, not many ships would get them. Spend stimulus $ to pay for it. Issue US flagged ships so equipped Letters of Marque as a legal shield. That might not stop all judicial attacks, but the need to go through Hillary before you get to the actual sailors/ship owners should slow down the judicial vultures.
License the tech to other countries who want to buy it. We could include a US issuable computer override code in foreign sales. I suspect foreign sales will be few as most will prefer to pay higher insurance costs, hazard pay and ransoms, but for some high value ships it may be cost effective and pay back part of our costs.
Your asking to much from Zero.
great picture of a couple of pirates.
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