This is how we handle the pirates

[Praxeas]

Both ships deployed helicopters, and naval officers hailed the pirates over loudspeakers and finally fired warning shots to stop them, Fernandes said, but not before the pirates had dumped most of their weapons overboard. NATO forces boarded the skiff, where they found a rocket-propelled grenade, and interrogated, disarmed and released the pirates.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517084,00.html

[oletime]

i saw that, but it was the canadians and the danes that did that, in two separate incidents, unbelievable!

[Ron]

That was HMCS Winnipeg a Canadian Destroyer!:thumbsup

[Digging4Truth]

That was HMCS Winnipeg a Canadian Destroyer!:thumbsup

Please tell the Canadian armed forces to stay on pirate patrol and please don't take a year off. :)

[jaxfam6]

but if you continue reading it also says that they let them go. They had not attacked a Canadian ship so they could not try them.

[Ron]

but if you continue reading it also says that they let them go. They had not attacked a Canadian ship so they could not try them.

International Politics!

Notice there are no Russian Warships patrolling?

[jwharv]

International Politics!

Notice there are no Russian Warships patrolling?


If there were I would be really worried.........

[Ferd]

but if you continue reading it also says that they let them go. They had not attacked a Canadian ship so they could not try them.

so let me get this right.

Merchant Marines cannot carry anything more deadly than a steak knife on the high seas, but Somoli Pirates can run around with rocke propeled grenades and we cannot pick them up and try them because they didnt attack anyone?


good grief.

[DividedThigh]

good job, this is what the us navy needs to do, or just blow them up and leave, dt

[Ferd]

good job, this is what the us navy needs to do, or just blow them up and leave, dt

The US Navy needs to do some .50 Cal practice.


the US Airforce needs to run some long range bombing raids and drop about a thousand Daisy Cutters on thier heads.

[Praxeas]

so let me get this right.

Merchant Marines cannot carry anything more deadly than a steak knife on the high seas, but Somoli Pirates can run around with rocke propeled grenades and we cannot pick them up and try them because they didnt attack anyone?


good grief.
Merchant Marines carry guns. I knew someone in the MM and they were in the Gulf to work with our Carrier group. He took pics and one of them showed a huge machine gun on his ship.

I don't know why they don't consider these pirates enemy combatants and just blow them out of the water

[Praxeas]

would a torpedo be over kill for one of those small skiffs? :ursofunny

[Ferd]

Merchant Marines carry guns. I knew someone in the MM and they were in the Gulf to work with our Carrier group. He took pics and one of them showed a huge machine gun on his ship.

I don't know why they don't consider these pirates enemy combatants and just blow them out of the water

Bro international law states that civilian cargo ships cannot be armed at all. Merchant Marines that are working in concert with the military may have a different set of rules, but these shops like hte Miersk Alabama are completely restricted from having any kind of deadly weapon at all.

[RandyWayne]

would a torpedo be over kill for one of those small skiffs? :ursofunny

If it was a Photon Torpedo............ Maybe.

[Praxeas]

Bro international law states that civilian cargo ships cannot be armed at all. Merchant Marines that are working in concert with the military may have a different set of rules, but these shops like hte Miersk Alabama are completely restricted from having any kind of deadly weapon at all.
I think that might be the case

[Praxeas]

During times of war they are essentially drafted

[Ron]

I had a friend in '91 whose name was Kourosh he was in the Iranian Merchant Marine in the eighties & remembers when American warships patrolled the Persian Gulf.
He told me one time when an American Destroyer called out for a small, Iranian gunship to stop & prepare to be boarded, they responded by calling them, "Yankee Imperial pigdogs!
I am cleaning up the language a bit here.
They refused and were told they would be shot at & fired a machine gun burst across thier bow.
They still would not stop & called them "American stinkers" & the American Destroyer fired a burst & took out thier engine so they were dead in the water.

They started yelling, "We surrender, don't shoot!"

Kourosh jumped ship when the Merchant ship he was on made a call in Vancouver & asked for asylum.

[DividedThigh]

now that would take care of business ferd, a little healthy fear goes a long way toward compliance, dt

[DividedThigh]

I had a friend in '91 whose name was Kourosh he was in the Iranian Merchant Marine in the eighties & remembers when American warships patrolled the Persian Gulf.
He told me one time when an American Destroyer called out for a small, Iranian gunship to stop & prepare to be boarded, they responded by calling them, "Yankee Imperial pigdogs!
I am cleaning up the language a bit here.
They refused and were told they would be shot at & fired a machine gun burst across thier bow.
They still would not stop & called them "American stinkers" & the American Destroyer fired a burst & took out thier engine so they were dead in the water.

They started yelling, "We surrender, don't shoot!"

Kourosh jumped ship when the Merchant ship he was on made a call in Vancouver & asked for asylum.

sounds like a smart guy ron, lol,dt

[Ron]

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e21/Ronb26/ataxonthepirates.jpg


http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e21/Ronb26/somalipiratehat.jpg

[DividedThigh]

cool hat, i love it, dt