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pinkfloydms
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#9303789 - 11/24/08 12:12 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Doesn't NATO move ships into the seas surrounding Somalia? I mean come on, did you see the boats these guys are hijacking boats in? You would think with our advanced radar we would be able to pick up when a boat was within 100 square mile area or something? I'm not implying we should do something about it, but you would think that some of the NATO countries that being involved would have said something by now.
What are your opinions on the matter?
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why does something this size
bother to stop for something this size
"hard to starboard"
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https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/so.html
Fact sheet on Somalia.
An article on the pirates.
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Somali pirates want $15 million for Saudi ship
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali pirates holding a Saudi supertanker after the largest hijacking in maritime history have reduced their ransom demand to $15 million (10 million pounds), an Islamist leader and regional maritime group both said on Monday.
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international/Somali_pirates_want_15_million_for_Saudi_ship.html?siteSect=143&sid=10005525&cKey=1227522172000&ty=ti
What happened to bush's war on terrorism? Is this not terrorism? Or is it just because they have nothing we want?
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If you argue this is terrorism, you might as well argue that anyone who holds up a liquor store at gunpoint is a terrorist.
Are these fuckers motivated by political means, or do they just want mad billz?
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So when did terrorism start having to be political? By your definition that means that 98% of the people that have been charged with terroristic threatening were falsely charged.
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Prisoner#1 said: why does something this size
bother to stop for something this size
"hard to starboard"
boom make bad hole
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I agree. It's because they have NOTHING we want. If there was Oil, Natural Gas, or the potential to install a central bank there then we'd be on it like flies on shit.
Like I've stated before. The People no longer control The Military. Corporations and Bankers control it.
Congressmen and women are easily bought. Something drastic needs to be done, and sadly it probably won't.
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Re: Why [Re: d33p]
#9303889 - 11/24/08 12:32 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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I wonder what that would do to that tanker with thousands of barrels of oil in it.
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If they hold hostages this could be seen as "terroristic."
If they don't, then let them sit. They'll come to you by trying to escape.
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They'll be taken out soon though. I neglected to see that it's an oil tanker that they have. So the oilmen will send a few gunships soon... perhaps some long-range snipers about a mile away on a naval ship.
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Minstrel said:
Are these fuckers motivated by political means, or do they just want mad billz?
I saw a documentary on them. Here is their story.
They use to make their living fishing their waters. Big fishing vessels from other countries started coming in, and fishing out their waters.
Sooo, they decided to start charging a "tax" on anyone cruising through. What they call tax, we call ransom. They started hijacking smaller vessels for small ransoms, and gradually worked their way up to larger ones, when they realized, it was just as easy.
They just want mad billz.
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It's only "their" waters so far out though. After that it's international waters.
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Doesn't NATO move ships into the seas surrounding Somalia?
The pirates in this case were 420 nautical miles off the coast. You are talking about patrolling an area of 2.5 million miles- there will never be enough warships to patrol an area of that size.
They will have to increase security onboard or be escorted by warships if they hope to prevent future hijackings.
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Its not nato's job to protect merchant ships. They should hire their own guards/mercenaries to do that.
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pinkfloydms said: It's only "their" waters so far out though. After that it's international waters.
I know.
They say because they were the only ones fishing in them for so long, they relied on what came out of them for their livelyhood. They complain that their liveyhood was taken away and this is their way of getting it back.
I am not defending them. I would blow them out of the water if they came after my crew.
Just explaining what their motive is.
Crazy times, crazy times.
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DieCommie said: Its not nato's job to protect merchant ships. They should hire their own guards/mercenaries to do that.
What exactly is NATO's job? I thought NATO has sent troops all over the world to protect shit? NATO is the worst thing every created.
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NATO's job, originally, was to be a coalition to oppose the soviets. Now there isnt much purpose for them, and I would advocate the US withdrawing from NATO. As it stands now, other countries take advantage of our large military to protect them through NATO, and thus they dont have to fund their own military and they save money. What we get out of it is added hegemony. Not worth it in my opinion.
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I'll do it for $100 an hour.
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NATO is a coalition of the biggest western military powers and mainly is for large scale operations and wars. I believe this is United Nations territory.
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