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Somali pirates assault Israeli ship
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Published: 04.04.09, 20:39
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1. Don't they carry emergency weapons for such situations?
meir elazar   (04.04.09)
They should have appropriate weapons to fend off the pirates, sink the pirate ships, and make shark food of the Somalis.
2. I mean are we still living in the dark ages
Zohan ,   Tel Aviv   (04.04.09)
where there is no law and order?...in the high seas. UN, NATO talks so much about human rights this, human rights that. WTF! Can you imagine those bastards can dictate our oil prices?
3. #1: Exactly!
Steve   (04.04.09)
Kill them. What is wrong with this picture? Let the sharks eat their carcases.
4. Trap
Pedro ,   Brazil   (04.04.09)
Somebody can send a fake ship tank loaded with appropriate armed forces to deal with the pirates.
5. Is Chairman Idan Ofer an apologist for terror?
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Chairman Ofer says the international community must work with Solmalia to stop this. Somalia is infested with Islamic terrorists. Somalia sanctions this criminal behavior. Aren't Al Qaeda cells in Somalia? Why does Chairman Ofer say this? Somalia is up to its neck in Islamic jihadist piracy, etc.
6. Somalia
will ,   dallas tx usa   (04.04.09)
Bomb Somalia. Take it off the map. Turn it in to a ghostland of dead terrorists. Who would complain except other terrorist states? Piracy must be dealt with with overwhelming means.
7. Armed Vessels V.S. Pirate
Yisroel ,   USA   (04.04.09)
Most vessels that put to sea including small yachts are armed. They are just not talking about it. There are no policemen at sea.
8. Meir elazar,
walt K ,   Sherbrooke, Canada   (04.04.09)
No, I think international laws prohibite self-defense for civilians, because they can not maneuver weapons on board. So pirates make lot of money easily with their tinny love boat.
9. what's up with the rash of very violent TBers?
y'all need lives! ,   get off puters now!   (04.04.09)
10. Surrounding all ships with razor wire would stop this piracy
Bunnie Meyer ,   Los Angeles, CA USA   (04.05.09)
11. Stamping out Somali Islamist-Jihadist terrorists on the seas
Brod ,   USA   (04.05.09)
The only way how these thugs could be stamped out completely is to make every Merchant Ship, Cruise Ship and other non-military Ship armed with heavy machine guns and other weapons. Once they spot the terrorist mother ship with their speed boats, they should obliterate them immediately. The bottom of the sea is where these thugs belong!
12. Actually ....
Sarah ,   New York City, USA   (04.05.09)
the best way to handle thye pirate cutters is to simply turn the vessel's water cannons on them. The water cannons are generally used to fight fires at sea. The pressure is sufficient to cut the pirate vessels in two. Then they get to swim to shore. Some make it. Most are taken by sharks. But -- hey -- the sharks need to eat, too ....
13. #9
ME ,   USA   (04.05.09)
I can imagine that the TB's are sick of lawless thieves and murders in this world who prey on those who DONT steal and murder. Sounds logical to me, better to voice an opinion than force it with a gun in someones face.
14. Somali Pirates
Rick S. ,   Florida   (04.05.09)
So what did those brave British pilots do? Did they wave to the pirates? Why did they shoot & sink them?
15. fighter jet should do the trick
albo ,   canada   (04.05.09)
next time they interfere with israeli property they will become fish food
16. These are not "Jihadi terrorists" - read up on the situation
Global Citizen ,   Israel & USA   (04.05.09)
These were average citizens who were screwed out of their fishing livelihoods and driven into poverty by modern outsider (over)fishing conglomerates. NOW they're criminals. Good going.
17. Every ship must be fully ARMED with rockets, machine guns &
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (04.05.09)
every other weapon the pirates use against innocents. It is absolute insanity and devoid of all ethics that ships are not fully armed to defend against pirates. BEING DEFENSELESS IS AN INVITATION TO PIRATES TO ATTACK.
18. As a Somali ...
Laila ,   Somaliland   (04.09.09)
I think the Pirates are doing an admirable job, people seem to ignore the fact that Arab/Asian and European countries have been dumping illegal toxic waste, medicine supplies and been illegally fishing in our waters resulting in our fishes being all but gone and making the fishing men resort to pirating. Somalis and East African countries went to the IC and asked for help to control their ships but the world ignored :/ The hijackings has restarted the Somali economy, giving those starving with hunger a job and prospects. The pirates in many cases have started funding schools. There was mutations and death through toxic poisoning amongst my fellow Somalis because of what many other countries did to our seas and the world decides to act now when it is a few ships? The hilarity of the west or Arabs never ceases to amaze me. The ironic thing is that the only time Piracy was stopped was when the Islamic courrts was in power for half a year, stability and peace was coming and Ethiopia fearing it would lose it's access points to the sea invaded and destoyed Somalia again with US's help. Well done for Israel's ship for getting away. For what it's worth, i hope no one is ever hurt but when the world ignores injustice. People decide to act on their own.
19. #18 - It's very sad, but Laila is 100% correct
William ,   Israel   (04.10.09)
Foreigners screwed the Somali coast line and its people. Despite the fact that Islamic Courts stopped piracy for a while, I agreed with the actions of Ethiopia and the US to push them out. Laila - while the Islamic Courts may have been bringing law and order, they were also using YOUR country as a new base for other Islamic-driven terror wars, including the smuggling of weapons and money on behalf of not-so-kind Islamic entities. You may have gotten a better life on the ground, but your neighbors would have seen war and terror increase - not to mention harsh Shaira law and you wearing a burka. Just as you do not want foreign exploitation of Somalia, we do not want a terror base in our midst as Sudan has become. You deserve peace and so do we.
20. To William.
Laila ,   Somaliland   (04.10.09)
The Islamic courts in 06 people misunderstood because they do not understand the history and mental thinking of Somalis. The old Islamic court was very religious yes but the difference was that there were many moderate Somalis in positions of power preventing it getting to the stage it is in now however the United States with Ethiopia turned a clan, intern warfare into a global war on terror and brought it into this mess and have now introduced Al Qaeda into the region and Islamists. There were extremists but they were a fringe group, the nobodies. What Ethiopia did, due to our historical ties [Christian/Muslim wars], when it invaded. It was something every Somali regardless of clan affliation despised and did the very thing they went in to prevent -They united the extreme Somalis and turned many Somalis extreme. It did not help that Ethiopian troops gang raped somali women and abused them. I am a neighbour William. I am from North 'Somalia' - Somaliland was a former British colony and declared independence and is now peaceful and democratic. If the South falls in the hands of the Islamists, it will be my country that is attacked. Not yours. Somaliland was bombed a while back by these same Islamists we both see as an enemy, they wish to prevent Somaliland being recognised - The Arabs refuse to recognise us because Somaliland has good ties with it's non muslim neighbours and the Arabs wish to neutralize Israel and Ethiopia's influence over the shipping lines. Israel is a far off dream tbh, i don't care about the Israel/Palestine issue. The Qu'ran stated Israel belongs to Jews so it has little to do with me and many Somalis feel the same. But back on topic of Pirates: It seems to me people ignore the cause of the problem and think the solution is to bomb the pirates. They have little to lose and much to gain. For a country that has had death for decades, the threat of death is nothing.
21. Don't even need firearms per se.
David ,   Salt Lake City   (04.10.09)
How about an automatic flare gun? High pressure water hoses? Harpoons, spear guns, tear gas, rubber bullets, surplus-anchor catapults. Where's the imagination?!
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