Pirates fire on U.S. cruise ship in hijack attempt
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Pirates chased and shot at a U.S. cruise ship with more than 1,000 people on board but failed to hijack the vessel as it sailed along a corridor patrolled by international warships, a maritime official said Tuesday.
The M/S Nautica, carrying 656 international passengers and 399 crewmembers, was sailing through the Gulf of Aden on Sunday when it encountered six bandits in two speedboats, said Noel Choong, who heads the International Maritime Bureau’s piracy reporting center in Malaysia.
The pirates fired at the passenger liner but the larger ship was faster than the pirates’ vessels, Choong said.
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There is a very easy and viable way to settle all of this Somali pirates mess. No muss, no fuss, no survivors. The end of Somalia, and the world would be NO worse off with the pestilence gone! Nuke the bastards! Nuke Somalia!
Maybe it’s time to arm crew members who sail in that part of the world. Arming passengers, who so choose, wouldn’t be a bad idea either. I wouldn’t mind at all taking my watch on deck with a 50 Cal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKSt-1gzsy4
Yeah, it would be fun to man the .50′s but WTF, just nuke the bastards, ALL of em, what would it hurt?? Other than the Somalis themselves, WHO cares about Somalia??
I think there’s some stupid international law saying that non-military ships can’t be armed. Of course, we ALL know that the Somalis are paying attention to International Law….
Thor, there’s probably some bureaucratic BS saying we can’t nuke Somalia too, because they really need it, and some laws just need to be broken, just like some assholes really DO need to be nuked… (Somalia)
Why do I advocate the use of nukes on Somalia??
And a nuke leaves no stinking corpses to bury, and it kills the AIDS virus too…
Fred, if we Nuked them, we wouldn’t have any fun shooting at the pirate ships.
But, you’re right about Somalia. If that country was Nuked, the whole continent of Africa would benefit along with the rest of the world. They only thing they ever did for us was immigrate here while being infected with Tuberculosis and take over jobs in meat packing plants from American Citizens.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2056507/posts
Note the H/T to Texas Fred
Nukes are soooo quick. I want the bastards to suffer! I’m thinking some sort of nasty nerve gas that takes a day or two to kill you.
Of course Specter gunships are an option I wouldn’t mind seeing used.
Nerve Gas… Damn… Why didn’t I think of that??
Then we can nuke the place and kill the AIDS and tuberculosis stuff!!
The trouble with nerve gas is that it doesn’t work all the time. A nuke is fast, and easy. Hell a couple of them would definitely send the message we want: Don’t F**k with us! That would get bin Laden’s panties in a bind.
Nuke ‘em? Hmm…. Yup. Works for me.
Wow, real life pirates do exist.
Short of nukes, which would be ideal, I would propose that all ships not identified and flagged are sunk. There would be a no float zone for the entire coast of Somalia. Mine the harbors of somalia, cluster bomb the ports, raze the cities to the ground,…….ah, nevermind, just nuke the place!
Send them “tainted” milk powder. Bastards, poison them all for what they did to our beloved soldiers in that “Black Hawk incident” years ago.
You want to help perk up the economy? Here’s how:
Offer Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean cruises, target your ads towards current and retired military and law enforcement personnel, and offer them cabins and verandas with the chance of encountering Somali and other pirates utilizing their choice of CIWS, Exocets, .50 cal Barrett M107s (for those who think close), RPGs. How cool to sip a mai tai, tilt back a hefeweizen, prop your 107 on the veranda railing and bang away?
I’m telling you, there’d be some money made.
BZ