Navy Seals kill Somali pirates, liberate ships.

[will2000]

I'm waiting for that headline. It's about time those thugs are stopped.

[SteveO]

Yeah, I am wondering why it seems nobody except who -- the Indian Navy -- has done much about this.

[GGD]

SteveO wrote:
Yeah, I am wondering why it seems nobody except who -- the Indian Navy -- has done much about this.

And it's now unclear if what they did was correct.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/11/...index.html

[bfd]

Wasn't Jesse "The Body" Ventura a Navy SEAL before his WWF and gubinatorial days?

[cbelt3]

Ain't nobody in the US going back to the smoking remains of Somlia.

[vision63]

The pirates should ask for a bailout. Same thing but more peaceable.

The Navy Seals would lose that's why. They'd never stop killing Somali's, it's like... a bunch of 'em.

[karsen]

The pirates are heroes in Somalia. That's how bad things are there.

My FIL is a ship captain. He's out to sea right now but when he gets back I intend to ask him how pirates are able to get ON the ship in the first place. I've been on his tanker when it's docked and it's not easy to get aboard then. When it's underway I can't imagine it's pretty damn hard to get aboard. You'd think a couple crew members with guns, or even a water canon could blow invaders right off the side. Maybe they are taught not to fight back.

[lafinfil]

Karsen
From what I have read on the subject ships with low sides is one of the criteria for picking a ship
but with the latest taking of the Saudi tanker it looks like they have advanced their abilities and picked
some tougher targets.

As far as US involvement, we may see some, if there is a mutual aid type agreement. We do have some cruisers
out there but I think that they are mainly doing some tracking.

Right now it's not our job to protect ships flying under a foreign flag - they are the property of their individual countries.

Probably makes a lot of those shipping companies that used the Liberian registration to dodge taxes think twice.

Call out the Liberian SEALS (or the Saudi Navy)

One of the benefits of paying taxes is military protection.

[mattkime]

i thought they just swashbuckled their way from one ship to another.

[Panopticon]

"I'm waiting for that headline."
Doubt you'll see that one. They're spread too thin between Iraq, Afghanistan, & South America. Besides, that's the kind of op the US doesn't want to acknowledge. More likely, it would be a delta exercise.

SteveO wrote:
Yeah, I am wondering why it seems nobody except who -- the Indian Navy -- has done much about this.

Cost vs risk. Rescues cost $XX Millions and endangers Billion $ ship, cargo, and hostages {crew}. Ransom = $1M or so. Do the math.