[zamanku] Re: Somalia's Pirates
Ini menyenangkan... Kalimat ini sungguh menyenangkan: Saya lebih mementingkan kebenaran fakta daripada dugaan belaka. Saya tidak malu mengakui kesalahan pendapat saya bilamana itu tak sesuai dengan kenyataan.Sebagai orang yang berpikir tentu kita boleh saja memiliki dugaan dan teori, namun ketika dugaan kita salah, apakah yang lain berani mengakuinya secara terbuka? Saya sudah melakukannya disini. Bagaimana dengan anda? Jaranng ada orang yang punya kejujuran intelktuil seperti ini, terutama dikalanngan orang Islam. --- In zamanku@yahoogroups.com, rizal lingga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pagi hari ini saya membaca di koran Kompas bahwa pemerintah Saudi Arabia menolak untuk membayar uang tebusan kepada para perompak Somalia, dan bahwa kelompok Muslim bersenjata di Somalia marah dan akan menyerang perompak karena mereka berani membajak kapal Muslim. (Kompas Sabtu 28 Nov 2008 hlm 8).Berarti bukan hanya China dan Russia yang terkenal tak pernah mau menyerah kepada tuntutan pembajak atau teroris, dan memilih serbuan pasukan komando daripada menyerah kepada tuntutan pembajak. Oh ya satu lagi, Israel juga demikian. Dan sekarang, Pemerintah Saudi Arabia juga menunjukkan kemarahannya dan keberaniannya untuk melawan tuntutan perompak.Baguslah itu. Dan dugaan saya tentang orang Arab ini ternyata salah. Saya lebih mementingkan kebenaran fakta daripada dugaan belaka. Saya tidak malu mengakui kesalahan pendapat saya bilamana itu tak sesuai dengan kenyataan.Sebagai orang yang berpikir tentu kita boleh saja memiliki dugaan dan teori, namun ketika dugaan kita salah, apakah yang lain berani mengakuinya secara terbuka? Saya sudah melakukannya disini. Bagaimana dengan anda? --- On Fri, 11/21/08, rizal lingga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: rizal lingga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [lintas-iman] Somalia's Pirates To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, November 21, 2008, 11:05 PM I hope that someday these Somalia pirates will hijack Chinese's ships of China, or Russia's ships. And in that day the Government of China will refuse to bargain with these pirates, and these pirates will kill those Chinese's sailors. And what will happen next easily predict: China's Navy will come to that area, to destroy and annihilate those pirates completely. Their land, their towns, their all. And so with the Government of Russia. Even now their warships have came to that area. We know how cruel those Russians have punished their rebels. I will looking forward for that day. Because as long as the owners of these hijacked ships still pay the ransom, these pirates will repeat their crimes again and again. Now those pirates very lucky with their recent victim Sirius Star tanker of Saudi Arabia. Because we know that Arab sheiks will happily pay the ransom for their moslem's brothers in Somalia. $25 MILLION Dollars, you know? CNN.com Pirates' luxury lifestyles on lawless coast * Story Highlights * Pirates able to enjoy lavish lifestyles in lawless Somalia from ransom payments * Stone houses, luxury cars, electricity generators, beautiful women among spoils * Money pouring into region from pirate economy estimated at $30 million * Locals set up businesses to cater to pirates; celebrate when ships are captured MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Somalia's increasingly brazen pirates are building sprawling stone houses, cruising in luxury cars, marrying beautiful women -- even hiring caterers to prepare Western- style food for their hostages. And in an impoverished country where every public institution has crumbled, they have become heroes in the steamy coastal dens they operate from because they are the only real business in town. The pirates depend on us, and we benefit from them, said Sahra Sheik Dahir, a shop owner in Haradhere, the nearest village to where a hijacked Saudi Arabian supertanker carrying $100 million in crude was anchored Wednesday. These boomtowns are all the more shocking in light of Somalia's violence and poverty: Radical Islamists control most of the country's south, meting out lashings and stonings for accused criminals. There has been no effective central government in nearly 20 years, plunging this arid African country into chaos. Life expectancy is just 46 years; a quarter of children die before they reach 5. But in northern coastal towns like Haradhere, Eyl and Bossaso, the pirate economy is thriving thanks to the money pouring in from pirate ransoms that have reached $30 million this year alone. In Haradhere, residents came out in droves to celebrate as the looming oil ship came into focus this week off the country's lawless coast. Businessmen started gathering cigarettes, food and cold glass bottles of orange soda, setting up small kiosks for the pirates who come to shore
[zamanku] Re: Somalia's Pirates
Pagi hari ini saya membaca di koran Kompas bahwa pemerintah Saudi Arabia menolak untuk membayar uang tebusan kepada para perompak Somalia, dan bahwa kelompok Muslim bersenjata di Somalia marah dan akan menyerang perompak karena mereka berani membajak kapal Muslim. (Kompas Sabtu 28 Nov 2008 hlm 8).Berarti bukan hanya China dan Russia yang terkenal tak pernah mau menyerah kepada tuntutan pembajak atau teroris, dan memilih serbuan pasukan komando daripada menyerah kepada tuntutan pembajak. Oh ya satu lagi, Israel juga demikian. Dan sekarang, Pemerintah Saudi Arabia juga menunjukkan kemarahannya dan keberaniannya untuk melawan tuntutan perompak.Baguslah itu. Dan dugaan saya tentang orang Arab ini ternyata salah. Saya lebih mementingkan kebenaran fakta daripada dugaan belaka. Saya tidak malu mengakui kesalahan pendapat saya bilamana itu tak sesuai dengan kenyataan.Sebagai orang yang berpikir tentu kita boleh saja memiliki dugaan dan teori, namun ketika dugaan kita salah, apakah yang lain berani mengakuinya secara terbuka? Saya sudah melakukannya disini. Bagaimana dengan anda? --- On Fri, 11/21/08, rizal lingga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: rizal lingga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [lintas-iman] Somalia's Pirates To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, November 21, 2008, 11:05 PM I hope that someday these Somalia pirates will hijack Chinese's ships of China, or Russia's ships. And in that day the Government of China will refuse to bargain with these pirates, and these pirates will kill those Chinese's sailors. And what will happen next easily predict: China's Navy will come to that area, to destroy and annihilate those pirates completely. Their land, their towns, their all. And so with the Government of Russia. Even now their warships have came to that area. We know how cruel those Russians have punished their rebels. I will looking forward for that day. Because as long as the owners of these hijacked ships still pay the ransom, these pirates will repeat their crimes again and again. Now those pirates very lucky with their recent victim Sirius Star tanker of Saudi Arabia. Because we know that Arab sheiks will happily pay the ransom for their moslem's brothers in Somalia. $25 MILLION Dollars, you know? CNN.com Pirates' luxury lifestyles on lawless coast * Story Highlights * Pirates able to enjoy lavish lifestyles in lawless Somalia from ransom payments * Stone houses, luxury cars, electricity generators, beautiful women among spoils * Money pouring into region from pirate economy estimated at $30 million * Locals set up businesses to cater to pirates; celebrate when ships are captured MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Somalia's increasingly brazen pirates are building sprawling stone houses, cruising in luxury cars, marrying beautiful women -- even hiring caterers to prepare Western- style food for their hostages. And in an impoverished country where every public institution has crumbled, they have become heroes in the steamy coastal dens they operate from because they are the only real business in town. The pirates depend on us, and we benefit from them, said Sahra Sheik Dahir, a shop owner in Haradhere, the nearest village to where a hijacked Saudi Arabian supertanker carrying $100 million in crude was anchored Wednesday. These boomtowns are all the more shocking in light of Somalia's violence and poverty: Radical Islamists control most of the country's south, meting out lashings and stonings for accused criminals. There has been no effective central government in nearly 20 years, plunging this arid African country into chaos. Life expectancy is just 46 years; a quarter of children die before they reach 5. But in northern coastal towns like Haradhere, Eyl and Bossaso, the pirate economy is thriving thanks to the money pouring in from pirate ransoms that have reached $30 million this year alone. In Haradhere, residents came out in droves to celebrate as the looming oil ship came into focus this week off the country's lawless coast. Businessmen started gathering cigarettes, food and cold glass bottles of orange soda, setting up small kiosks for the pirates who come to shore to re-supply almost daily. Dahir said she is so confident in the pirates, she instituted a layaway plan just for them. They always take things without paying and we put them into the book of debts, she told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. Later, when they get the ransom money, they pay us a lot. For Somalis, the simple fact that pirates offer jobs is enough to gain their esteem, even as hostages languish on ships for months. The population makes sure the pirates are well-stocked in qat, a popular narcotic leaf, and offer support from the ground even as the international community tries to quash them. Regardless of how the money is
