Hey, don't believe me. See:
US accused of covert operations in Somalia
The Somali Pirates of Israel
You know, I've been wondering why the Navy doesn't send some SEAL frogmen out to either retake the boat and save the captain, or why they don't just sink the boat.
The CAPTAIN CAN SWIM and the PIRATES CAN NOT with GUNS in their hands!!!
Compare this situation to the Jessica Lynch fiasco and ask yourself WTF?
Since when does the U.S. hold back and negotiate when it comes to "terrorists," huh?
"Pirated crew safe in Kenya; Vt. captain still held at gunpoint; Shots are fired at US Navy boat"
BOURNE - Pirates on the 28-foot lifeboat, believed to be armed with pistols and AK-47 assault rifles, fired yesterday on a small US Navy craft that had approached from the destroyer USS Bainbridge. The gunfire forced the sailors to turn back, and they did not return fire, a US official told CNN.
The Somali pirates chased away the AmeriKan navy, huh?
Pfffffttt!
Phillips's cargo vessel, the 500-foot Maersk Alabama, was carrying humanitarian aid south toward Kenya when it was attacked by pirates Wednesday. Phillips and the crew thwarted the siege, and, the crew said, the captain gave himself up to avoid bloodshed....
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As for the special teams, it is not like they don't have them!!!
"Boston SWAT team begins training with marine counterpart; Coast Guard unit provides expertise in offshore tactics" by Eric Moskowitz, Globe Staff | April 12, 2009
The Boston Police Department's SWAT team, drilled to handle volatile situations on land - not to mention in buildings and on rooftops - trained for the first time last week with its maritime counterpart from the Coast Guard.
The Coast Guard's Boston-based Maritime Safety and Security Team, a SWAT-style operation established after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, worked with the city's specialized police squad to familiarize its members with offshore and in-harbor vessel-boarding tactics, water survival skills, ship-clearing methods, and other maneuvers, said Lieutenant Commander Daniel Deptula, who leads the maritime team.
Well, WHAT are they WAITING FOR, huh?
That Coast Guard team, one of a dozen based in the nation's major ports, handles harbor defense and coastal security above and beyond the Coast Guard's traditional search-and-rescue and maritime-law duties.
In addition to preparing for the possibility of a water-borne terrorist attack, the team escorts high-profile vessels and monitors Boston Harbor during special events, such as the 2004 Democratic National Convention or the upcoming Sail Boston, which brings tall ships to the city.
Have you HAD ENOUGH of the "terrorist" bullshit, folks?
Related: Boston's Tall Ships Tacking and Jibing
The joint training came together through a conversation between the team's logistics officer and a Boston police sergeant during a multiagency planning meeting for Sail Boston 2009, said Chief Warrant Officer Terry Reese, the assistant planning officer who handles logistics for the 72-member maritime safety team, which is ported at the First Coast Guard District in Boston's North End.
Deptula said the team had conducted similar training with the FBI in the past, as part of an effort to coordinate with different agencies for homeland security purposes, to protect Boston, its harbor, and the region's essential maritime shipping traffic.
From WHO? "Al-CIA-Duh?"
Puh-leeze!!!!! STOP the LYING!!!!!!!
"It's a force multiplier," Deptula said. "We really need to economize our efforts and be on the same page as much as possible from an operations standpoint, so we can help each other out and coordinate our efforts when things are larger than what one agency or jurisdiction can handle."
The highly trained assault unit within the maritime team - a component of about 15 members known as Maritime Law Enforcement/Force Protection - worked with about 20 members from Boston's SWAT team Thursday and Friday at the Massachusetts Military Reservation on Cape Cod and nearby at Massachusetts Maritime Academy, using the academy's pool and its training vessel, the 540-foot-long USTS Kennedy.
They NEED YOU in the Gulf of Aden, folks!!!!! NOW!!!!!!!
The joint training session, planned weeks in advance, took place as the canalside academy in Bourne was becoming a hive of media activity, given the hijacking by pirates of a shipping vessel captained by academy graduates off the Horn of Africa.
Yeah, what a COINCIDENCE, cui bono?
The Maritime Safety and Security Teams are each identified with a five-digit number that starts with "911," to recall the basis for their establishment. The Boston team is known as MSST 91110.
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I, for the record, am TIRED of that DAMNABLE LIE being used to JUSTIFY EVERY ACT and ADVANCEMENT of TYRANNY, folks!!!! How about you?
Sick of the s*** media and its disingenuous agenda-pushing lies?
Update:
"Piracy in the Red Sea: Saudi points towards Israel" by Habib Trabelsi – Middle East Online First Published November 25, 2008
Not only do columnists and analysts openly accuse Israel of sponsoring acts of piracy that multiply off Somali waters, but they also do not hide their fears of an internationalization of security in the Red Sea, where Israel plays a decisive role.
“What is happening in the Horn of Africa is not a simple case of piracy. These acts of piracy raise various questions about the capabilities and equipment of simple outlaws who are seeking ransoms,” wrote Tuesday (November 25) Nawaf Al-Meshal Sabhan in the Saudi daily Al-Iqtissadia.
“These acts triggered statements on the internationalization of the Red Sea, in which the enemy state of Israel would be a crucial element,” he adds.
“Who has got an interest in such an internationalization?” Asks the analyst, echoing “another disturbing development represented by the decision of a shipping company (AP Moller-Maersk, the world’s largest container ship operator and supply vessel operator) to divert its huge merchant fleet from Suez Canal and take the route via the Cape of Good Hope.”
“Who has got an interest in putting pressure on Egypt, by diverting cargo ships of Suez Canal and by making Egypt lose daily income of over $15 million?” the analysts asks again.
“Who is behind acts of piracy?” Was the headline of the daily Al-Riyadh’s editorialist Dr. Hashem Abdou Hashem.
“These repeated acts of piracy are premeditated. They are sponsored by a State or organization, in any case by a party seeking to create tension, concern and instability in the Red Sea in order to achieve strategic interests,” he wrote.
According to him, “this party seeks to convince the international community to monitor the sea on the pretext of ensuring the safety of navigation, ensuring energy supplies and preventing supplies of arms to troublemakers in the region,” referring particularly to the Islamist militia “Shebab” who control much of Somalia.
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