High Seas African Piracy: More Than 70 Ships Have Been Hijacked in 2008

"They do have these rocket launchers. And I think a rocket launcher could punch a hole in a ship."

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November 18, 2008 at 12:22 pm - CBS News
Dateline: Jidda, Saudi Arabia
The Prophet Obama   November 18th, 2008 - 1:43 pm

“High Seas African Piracy”

Here I thought it was a story about Obama being born in Kenya and stealing the U.S. Presidency as a fake natural born citizen!

The Prophet Obama   November 18th, 2008 - 1:47 pm

“High Seas Afri can Piracy”

Here I thought it was a story about Obama being born in Kenya and steal ing the U.S. Presidency as a fake natural born citizen!

Mark the Qeeur   November 18th, 2008 - 2:09 pm

A rocket launcher probably couldn’t punch a hole in a ship. A rocket could. The Lord Obama will stop all this when he gets into office. He should have all this finished by 2025. He will become King Of America in 2010.
The Lord Obama forgot to register for the draft I heard tell.

The Great Osama   November 18th, 2008 - 3:16 pm

I would actually doubt a rocket (or launcher) could punch a hole in the side of one of the super tankers. Which begs the question: why the f let them that close in the first place? A bow and stern mounted 50cal. would take care of any boat approaching, maybe before they could even get a rocket shot (not to mention they would be standing on a fast moving platform). Or here’s an even better question. I have a construction company. EVERY SINGLE ONE of my large pieces of equipment has a $500 GPS mounted on it. I can log into the monitoring website and find it instantly. Why do these tankers (or other stolen boats) not have any locating device? After all, the stories all start out with, we don’t know where the ship went.

If they would sack-up, spend $50,000 on each boat, they would have defense and recovery options. The boat gets jacked, you find out where they are and get blackwater ops to go in there and kill ‘em all. It wouldn’t make me lose a blink of sleep to see them all dead and rotting, and before that makes you disgusted, remember: these “pirates” are the lowest form of life on Earth and wouldn’t hesitate a SINGLE SECOND, to kill you, your family, your neighbors, and anyone who tried to intervene. They DESERVE to die in the cruelest way possible to deter their continuing behavior.

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James   November 18th, 2008 - 3:56 pm

Buy the ship and contents from the owners, (find and) sink the ship and the pirates. Problem solved.

Just kidding, the above post is probably the better solution.

Gregus Scottus   November 18th, 2008 - 4:40 pm

Those RPGs really pay for themselves, don’t they?

Augustus   November 18th, 2008 - 4:54 pm

I know how to get the pirates off the ship in ten minutes. Tell them if they are not off in ten minutes there entire Pirate village will be taken hostage. If this was Putin he would use three hundred Somali residents as leverage. You cannot bargain when you have no chips. These days require leaders who know how to handle situations like this one. Not to mention why the ship does not have ten security people on it with there own bazzoka.

curmudgeon10   November 18th, 2008 - 8:16 pm

Here we go into the enlightened age of Obama. We’ll send envoys, have diplomatic talks, etc. If we ever catch any pirates, we’ll fund their lawyers and see if we can get a conviction. Other news columns are already reporting on the many “legal” restrictions to taking action against these thugs.

Baloney. I’m with the poster who says that 50 cal machine guns would take care of the problem. It’s difficult for me to understand why the captain of a supertanker would actually throw down a ladder!

There are so many obvious solutions, but I’m anxious to see how the bright new world of diplomacy solves it.

claspur   November 18th, 2008 - 10:43 pm

Hi-jinx on the High seas, is all I see here.

Bow,stearn, starboard and port; have USN mounted Phalanx guns on these ships.
These pirates wouldn’t dare come close.

Another great weapons system is, search:
Metal Storm “videos”

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