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1 posted on 01/05/2010 3:48:02 PM PST by george76

Pay in advance, or pay upon successful passage?

2 posted on 01/05/2010 3:49:29 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine

Welcome to the Barbary Coast II.

Why aren’t we sinking a number of pirate ships, and a number of pirates with them?

3 posted on 01/05/2010 3:50:16 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Good news. HC bill will not cover illegal aliens. Bad news. 20-35 million will be made citizens.)

great racket! how much are they kicking over to the pirates?

the Soprano crew must have thought that one up!

4 posted on 01/05/2010 3:50:18 PM PST by rahbert (Bop Bop, dibidip dibidip....)

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?

7 posted on 01/05/2010 3:58:12 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (The CRU needs adult supervision.)

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.

9 posted on 01/05/2010 4:00:40 PM PST by Retain Mike

Not one thin dime for tribute. Blast the pirates to hell.

10 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))

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.

11 posted on 01/05/2010 4:04:06 PM PST by givemELL (Does Taiwan Meet the Criteria to Qualify as an "Overseas Territory of the United States"? by Richar)

According to Wiki they have two corvettes, eight missile boats and some coastal defense craft.

15 posted on 01/05/2010 4:05:33 PM PST by colorado tanker

Yemen is part of the piracy in the Gulf of Aden problem.

16 posted on 01/05/2010 4:10:28 PM PST by cranked

Terrorists AND pirates? What a country!

22 posted on 01/05/2010 9:14:06 PM PST by luvie (When Obama says (over and over) "let me be clear" you can interpret it as "let me lie to you"!)

Cuttin in on the US....we’re supposed to be the ones quaranteein’ safe passage around the world.

23 posted on 01/06/2010 10:38:35 AM PST by mo

To: george76; SunkenCiv; G8 Diplomat; nuconvert; gandalftb

The most powerful pirate group is the Somali Marines, who, reports say, is the most sophisticated of the pirate groups and one that has a military structure. It has a fleet admiral, admiral, vice admiral and a head of financial operations.

Area of operation is central Somalia from north of Mogadishu towards Puntland. Their specialties are kidnap and ransom, and are known to use mother vessels. It is said to have a capability to operate further off-shore than the other groups and participate in piracy activities involving vessel seizures, kidnappings and ransom demands.
Their main activities are around the areas of the central Somali coast of Haradheere. The Somali Marines, or the Defenders of Somali Territorial Waters as they like to be called, are loyal to regional warlord Abdi Mohamed Afweyne. They were responsible for a recent hostage saga where they held 25 hostages for four months until a sizeable ransom was paid.