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Yemen navy charges $60,000 for safe passage in pirate waters
The Australian ^
| January 06, 2010
| Michelle Wiese Bockmann,
Posted on 01/05/2010 3:48:01 PM PST by george76
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posted on
01/05/2010 3:48:02 PM PST
by
george76
To: george76
Pay in advance, or pay upon successful passage?
To: george76
Welcome to the Barbary Coast II.
Why aren’t we sinking a number of pirate ships, and a number of pirates with them?
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posted on
01/05/2010 3:50:16 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
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To: george76
great racket! how much are they kicking over to the pirates?
the Soprano crew must have thought that one up!
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posted on
01/05/2010 3:50:18 PM PST
by
rahbert
(Bop Bop, dibidip dibidip....)
To: Pearls Before Swine
Protection money, seems like we’ve heard that before.
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posted on
01/05/2010 3:50:57 PM PST
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Pearls Before Swine
Sounds like the Barbary pirates have settled in Yemen.
Millions for defense, not one cent for tribute. Thomas Jefferson
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posted on
01/05/2010 3:52:15 PM PST
by
kabar
To: george76
Yemen navy charges $60,000 for safe passage in pirate waters Until the pirates offer $65,000 to deliver the ship to them. I can see a bidding war between the pirates and the shippers.
BTW, what evidence is there that the Yemeni Navy and Somali Pirates are distinct entities?
To: DoughtyOne
Why arent we sinking a number of pirate ships, and a number of pirates with them?Because we are the largest muslim nation and therefore our navy can't harm another muslim. Just ask our Dear Reader.
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posted on
01/05/2010 4:00:24 PM PST
by
YankeeReb
(Pray for 0bama Psalm 109:8 ; May his days be short. May another take his office.)
To: george76; rahbert; DoughtyOne
Obviously this is tribute, because Yemen has no navy to speak of. Acceptance of this proposal provides the clearest evidence the Western task force in the Persian Gulf has chosen impotence from among the alterantives available. Instantaneous communications means politicians are micro-managing mlitary operations.
To: george76
Not one thin dime for tribute. Blast the pirates to hell.
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posted on
01/05/2010 4:02:20 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
("Get lost, Mitt. You're the Eddie Haskell of the Republican party." (Finny))
To: george76
Perhaps the US State Dept will congratulate Yemen for its “business” acumen. Previous posts...”Barbary Pirates, tribute” are quite to the point. Islamic Jizya has not been applied, although it is central to the problem.
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posted on
01/05/2010 4:04:06 PM PST
by
givemELL
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To: YankeeReb
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posted on
01/05/2010 4:04:46 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
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To: YankeeReb
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posted on
01/05/2010 4:04:49 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Good news. HC bill will not cover illegal aliens. Bad news. 20-35 million will be made citizens.)
To: Retain Mike
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posted on
01/05/2010 4:05:28 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Good news. HC bill will not cover illegal aliens. Bad news. 20-35 million will be made citizens.)
To: george76
According to Wiki they have two corvettes, eight missile boats and some coastal defense craft.
To: george76
Yemen is part of the piracy in the Gulf of Aden problem.
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posted on
01/05/2010 4:10:28 PM PST
by
cranked
To: kabar
Millions for defense, not one cent for tribute. Thomas Jefferson The sentiment is admirable but that phrase is incorrectly, yet consistently, attributed to Thomas Jefferson.
The statement was actually made by Robert Goodloe Harper, Congressman from South Carolina and Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, on June 18, 1798 and had to do with the French Navy seizing our ships on the high seas. The proof is left as an exercise for Google.
To: colorado tanker
According to Wiki they have two corvettes, eight missile boats and some coastal defense craft....In other words, eighteen seconds would be the maximum term of this Navy if the Obama administration had ANY balls.
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posted on
01/05/2010 4:18:43 PM PST
by
Safetgiver
(I'd rather die under a free American sky than live under a Socialist regime.)
To: colorado tanker
According to Wiki they have two corvettes, eight missile boats and some coastal defense craft. Actually I think the "protection" boats are Australian-built
37.5 metre patrol boat
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posted on
01/05/2010 4:19:09 PM PST
by
Oztrich Boy
(Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. - Horace Walpole)
To: Oztrich Boy
Most of the Yemeni ships are Russian built, but they do have eight Bay Class patrol boats built in Australia. I didn’t see in the article which they are “renting” out.
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