The pirates are making a comeback

I find it hard to see how you can deem these matters funny... People live in distress and it's a hazard to world economy... Anyways, we could, but a huge part of that technology in practice is in American hands, and they've got something else on their minds right now :)
 
I think its kinda funny how there are still "pirates" except now with AKs and other automatic rifles. There has been alot of pirate attacks recently for some reason o_O
 
So how did the "thugs with boats" best a navy? According to that article, the thugs got pretty wasted by the navy.
 
I love this story...always makes me giggle. Piracy is big in that area...I believe that they recently hijaked a cargo ship with Tanks and munitions on it. Oh well I suppose that is what happens when anarchy reign in Somalia for a little over a decade.
 
xenophek said:
So how did the "thugs with boats" best a navy? According to that article, the thugs got pretty wasted by the navy.
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Well, check the news. In under a year, they've gotten over $30 million in ransom.

Sexy Beast said:
I love this story...always makes me giggle. Piracy is big in that area...I believe that they recently hijaked a cargo ship with Tanks and munitions on it. Oh well I suppose that is what happens when anarchy reign in Somalia for a little over a decade.
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Since 1991 actually :) You're right. It was quite a happening, since the ship was bound for Kenia, and rumour had it the tanks and ammo were going to Congo (yes, where there's fighting atm). Kenia denied that and said it was all meant for their own military.

P.S.
A few days ago, the Somalian PM announced the rebels were about to take Mogadishu. I wonder if Ethiopia (Catholic) is coming to help this time as well :)
 
Bas.B said:
Well, check the news. In under a year, they've gotten over $30 million in ransom.



Since 1991 actually :) You're right. It was quite a happening, since the ship was bound for Kenia, and rumour had it the tanks and ammo were going to Congo (yes, where there's fighting atm). Kenia denied that and said it was all meant for their own military.

P.S.
A few days ago, the Somalian PM announced the rebels were about to take Mogadishu. I wonder if Ethiopia (Catholic) is coming to help this time as well :)
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I love Somalia. :D

Anyway you neglected to mention that the provisional Somalian government was a secular entity and that the Rebels were most diffinitly Islamic. Also I never thought Ethiopia left the country last I heard they were involved in some pretty nasty incedents involving civilian casualties.
 
Sexy Beast said:
I love this story...always makes me giggle. Piracy is big in that area...I believe that they recently hijaked a cargo ship with Tanks and munitions on it. Oh well I suppose that is what happens when anarchy reign in Somalia for a little over a decade.
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ya, what ever happened with that? I don't recall hearing how it ended
 
The US sent in Special Forces and took them out i think. Those were Russian armaments if i remember.

On a separate note, i put this up because it is devoid of politics, please, lets try to keep it that way.
 
Frank Booth said:
The US sent in Special Forces and took them out i think. Those were Russian armaments if i remember.

On a separate note, i put this up because it is devoid of politics, please, lets try to keep it that way.
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Will do, just fleshing out the story with some background. Also I love to talk about current world events.
 
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