On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Pete Theisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Everybody! > > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/washington/20military.html > > "He stressed that there were no plans to mount rescues of the 18 ships > and their crews currently being held by pirates." > > They are kidding, right? How hard would it be to put militia on all the > ships traveling the area and unceremoniously kill the pirates?
On a related note: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5235404.ece Pirate 'mothership' was really Thai fishing boat The pirate "mothership" destroyed by the Indian Navy in the Gulf of Aden was a Thai fishing boat that had been hijacked and whose crew were tied up below decks. The vessel, which was sunk by INS Tabar, an Indian frigate, on the night of November 18, was the Ekawat Nava 5, a deep-sea trawler, rather than a floating pirate armoury loaded with supplies of ammunition and explosives, as India had claimed. Wicharn Sirichaiekawat, the manager of the Bangkok-based Sirichai Fisheries, the ship's owner, said that the facts emerged when one of his crew was found alive, adrift in the Indian Ocean. He said that 14 others were still missing and at least one was confirmed dead. The new development was confirmed by the International Maritime Bureau (IMB). Oops! -- Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
