They can overfly Iraq for over a decade and see every little movement but they can't pick up the pirates on their radars?
Come on! I guess that is why this stuff has turned exclusively into briefs.
"Somali pirates snare Chinese ship, crew" by Associated Press | October 20, 2009
NAIROBI - Somali pirates seized a Chinese cargo ship yesterday with 25 people onboard, a naval spokesman for the European Union’s antipiracy force said, the first successful attack on a Chinese vessel since the country deployed three naval warships to the region....
Somali pirates have recently ramped up attacks after a period of quiet during poor weather. They use sophisticated equipment and larger “mother ships’’ to enable them to strike hundreds of miles offshore.
Yeah, right, whatever weak excuse you offer (flush)....
The multimillion-dollar ransoms they share are a fortune in their impoverished, war-ravaged country....
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FLASHBACK:
"Spanish trawler hijacked off Somalia" by Associated Press | October 3, 2009
Yeah, haven't heard about them for a while, and after this Slow Saturday special, I won't again. But the purpose was served: get western warships patrolling that vital sea lane, cui bono?
MADRID - Pirates hijacked a Spanish tuna trawler with a 36-member crew yesterday in the Indian Ocean, officials said.
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The ship Alakrana sent out distress signals advising of a pirate attack and since then its owner has not been able to communicate with it, said Echebastar Fleet, the firm that owns the ship.
Two planes from Luxembourg, taking part in an European Union antipiracy flotilla, flew over the ship and saw armed people aboard, said Pilar Unzalu, the Basque region’s fisheries and agriculture minister....
So what happened, Globe?
FLASHBACK:
"11 suspected pirates captured in Indian Ocean
PARIS — A NATO spokeswoman says 11 suspected pirates have been captured after a foiled attack on French fishing ships in the Indian Ocean.
Jacqueline Sherriff of the maritime unit of NATO in Northwood, outside London, says the coast guard in the archipelago of Seychelles captured one boat with eight suspects on board. She says three men were discovered aboard another boat believed to be their mothership. Pirates attacked two fishing boats in the Indian Ocean on Saturday, but French soldiers protecting the trawlers returned fire and forced the assailants to flee....
--more--"So why are these hijackings not followed up, huh?
Our CIA warlords now being protected playing pirates? How come it is only "adversarial" governments that have ships hijacked?
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Agenda-Pushing Pirates Surface Again in Somalia
Yeah, somehow superior western forces one presumes would be the focus of attacks are just better at fending the pirates off, arrrrgh!
Btw, what about the FAMINE THERE, Glob?
