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How long are countries going to pay these rats

It will go on as long as we allow it...pretty frustrating when there is way more than enough firepower floating around in that region to get the message across but using it is 'not proper form'. I'd say it's time to make a statement, and I'm not talking shots across the bow.

Sink a few of the losers!!! :tgun2:
 
As long as they keep Hijacking things we want or need.

No one was saying clean out the rats nest when oil was $142.00 a Barrel becouse we needed it no mater the cost.

Get use to it!

Be glad that Oil has gone down or we'd see 0.20 cent increase at the pump today for it.
 
Wow! Can see this one getting political soon. Maybe not.

But IMHO, I feel that the inaction in the last reported hijacking/pirating of a ship in those water just enboldened these guys.

The sooner someone starts wasting pirates, and sinking their captured goods the sooner they might realize that they're not going to be making any money off it, and maybe they'll quit.

Sometimes loss of life can be a deterrent to stupid acts.
 
Yep, makes me wonder as well why no power has taken the initiative to waste a few of these scumbags to get the point across. Hell, that is a training exercise for our military, give us the green light, LOL

I can't wait to see one of these tankers be a decoy and blast these losers out of the water! :ernae:

Doesn't this fall under NATO jurisdiction? for once they could actually do some good.

Definitely NOT for sinking their captured goods, there is enough crude floating around the ocean already! :isadizzy:
 
Our Navy and the Navies of other countries is supposed to keep the sea lanes open for trade. I think that at the present time there is very little leadership as far as the Naval world is concerned. A tanker with 1/4 of a day's output by Saudi Arabia is a lot of fuel for the industrial world. BTW, this thread can turn political very fast.:censored:
 
Lionheart said:
I hope we wipe them out... Get them off the planet. Make the penalties extreme.



Bill
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Not so fast there all you shoot first and ask later.

Article said:
Christensen said the Sirius Star was carrying crude, but he could not say how much. Fully loaded, the ship's cargo would be worth about $100 million.
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The ship's cargo ALONE would be worth about $100 million. How much dose this ship cost? An it brand new. If I found the right ship it had it Keel Laid on 2007-10-29.

http://exchange.dnv.com/exchange/main.aspx?extool=vessel&subview=yard&vesselid=29210

Some one going to pay for the Ship it's Cargo to Clean up the spilt oil and the cost of the lost of the ship while a new one is built IF it is sunk by any one's Navy.
 
Well, I would think if you were to be pro-active and sink the pirates before they board the tanker...:d
 
I don't really think anyone is saying sink the ships. Like Michael said we have enough crude floating around in the ocean-no I'm not a :censored: tree hugger. We need to clean out the nest.

Back in the 70s there was a nest of pirates operating out of Vietnam after the pull out of American troops, a clandestine group of raiders stopped the problem by cutting it off at the head so to speak. We could and should do the same in Somalia and this time do it right. The UN is hopelessly deadlocked as to what to do as usual, this job will take a group of especially talented individuals cooperating with the US Navy and other willing participants to deal with this. There are other hot spots that need to be dealt with in the same manner in the South China Sea now but China has only given token cooperation.
Ted

Allen said:
Not so fast there all you shoot first and ask later.



The ship's cargo ALONE would be worth about $100 million. How much dose this ship cost? An it brand new. If I found the right ship it had it Keel Laid on 2007-10-29.

http://exchange.dnv.com/exchange/main.aspx?extool=vessel&subview=yard&vesselid=29210

Some one going to pay for the Ship it's Cargo to Clean up the spilt oil and the cost of the lost of the ship while a new one is built IF it is sunk by any one's Navy.
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Hey Ted, I'm with ya there. That would be why I said earlier that we should introduce them to Davy Jones before they get to the intended victim ship. It can't be too hard to guess which boat to shoot at :d
 
It might sound like a good idea to terminate these people with extreme predjudice, but there are not enough 'un-committed' resources available from Nations who would be prepared to do so.
That aside, do we really think the so-called Somali 'Government' would appreciate any intervention by outside forces?
Of course, I'd be cynical enough to suggest the 'Pirates' most probably have their operations sanctioned by whoever is at the top of the 'Government'.
Short memories as well team, the previous operations by outsiders in Somalia were a costly and bloody exercise with no reward.
:kilroy:
 
I would have thought that the amount of cash these shipowners and oilmen (particularly Saudi ones) generate, they could afford some kind of snappy defence mechanism. Can't rely on the navies, as there is little or no warning, but a small chopper with a few carefully-chosen ASM's could be launched fairly quickly, don't you think ?

Then blow the sods out of the water. Who is going to complain?
 
I would think placing a squad of well armed personnel aboard these ships would deter acts of piracy. From what I can tell, the pirates do not use armored war vessels, but relatively simple and lightweight boats. M4's or AK's equipped with grenade launchers might be all the deterrence needed. I kind of doubt these scumbags will want to hang around when their bodies start getting ventilated and their boats receive 40mm holes in the hulls on a regular basis.
 
stansdds said:
I would think placing a squad of well armed personnel aboard these ships would deter acts of piracy. From what I can tell, the pirates do not use armored war vessels, but relatively simple and lightweight boats. M4's or AK's equipped with grenade launchers might be all the deterrence needed. I kind of doubt these scumbags will want to hang around when their bodies start getting ventilated and their boats receive 40mm holes in the hulls on a regular basis.
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Ah - much sense talked here - My guess is that we don't know what is being planned - a deterent should be publicised but would make better headlines with a result.

Peace to the peaceful :ernae:
 
Somali pirates hijack a Saudi oil tanker. Is there no honor among thieves? :d
 
Our early morning news tells me there has been anoughter pirate raid overnight. They are really pushing there luck....I'm puzzled about the insurers.:isadizzy:
 
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