How to Deal

Narrow shipping lanes? A pre-emptive strike? These guys are animals, and the only language they understand comes from the barrel of a GUN.

It is important for the world to act against piracy. The total area of sea to be covered is many millions of square miles. All the world's navies won't be able to preempt this low grade warfare. A single naval vessel would have to cover many thousands of square miles. What's needed is.
1) Take the attack to the coastline. The pirates will have to refuel, take rest etc. The worlds armies can easily monitor with satellites every vessel that berths in Puntland.
2) It's easier to preemptively bring down the pirate vessels when they are on the coast once they are identified to be so.
3) Legal issues can be sorted out at the United Nations, as I don't believe any govt would support the pirates at that forum

And yes, "officially" Muslim operations were involved in this. But it was French commandos who masterminded the operation (the Saudis are not that stupid). Read "The Siege Of Mecca - The Forgotten Uprising In Islam Holiest Shrine and The Birth Of Al Quaeda", by Yaroslav Trofimov. Now calm down and go wipe your nose, "I'm-not-a-Pakistani-hellboy".

By the way, yes we do learn from the French and vice versa. The SEALS are known to train with the French Foreign Legion (no, not all of them are foreigners) in jungle and desert warfare of French Guyana and Djibouti where the Legion maintain training posts. You can't get better than these two units.

The fact is the French excel at this type of operation. When the
Great Mosque at Mecca was overtaken by terrorists in 1979 (many see it as Al Quaeda's first manifestation), guess who was called on to clean up the mess? And they were many more after that (check out the French foreign Legion's lethal intervention in Kolweisi, 1978. A classic). We in the US don't know that (but we love to poke fun at the frogs) because terrorism wasn't our problem before 9/11.

This happened in the 60's and was it reported in the News NO!

From 14:03 until 14:10, the Israeli air assault unleashed hell, concentrating a coordinated strafing attack first of bombs, then of rockets, armor-piercing bullets, and napalm on the ship's communication antennas and crew. Basically these fighters exhausted all of their ordnance and ammunition on a ship they knew could not return fire before they left. (3) page 16 and (4). Israel later confirmed that multiple Mirage fighter-bombers and Dassault Mystyres swept-wing fighters were used, and this was confirmed from photographs taken by Liberty sailors. During the assault, the aircraft jammed all frequencies so the Liberty was only able to communicate during the short intervals when the Israeli rockets were in-flight, as the fighters had to switch off jamming temporarily. (1) page 36. Also during the assault, the American flag was shot away, but before the torpedo attack began, it was replaced with a larger 8x13 foot version. (3) page 19.

Between 14:24 and 14:28, the three torpedo boats arrived in visual range and were reported as flying Israeli flags. (3) page 19 and (1) page 36.

At 14:31, both the USS Liberty and the torpedo boats opened fire at each other. At least five (5) torpedoes were launched, and two (2) torpedoes made contact at about 14:35, and later mechanical analysis revealed one of the torpedoes hit in an area where a few meters in either direction would likely have broken the ship in half. Twenty-five (25) Americans working in the SIGINT section were killed instantly by this torpedo. Following the torpedoes, the Israeli boats raked the USS Liberty with cannon and machine-gun fire, shooting at any visible sailor above deck. At one point, the Israelis concentrated their fire on the boiler, trying to cause an explosion and sink the ship. The torpedo boats were later confirmed to be Ayah class motor torpedo boats, each carrying two (2) torpedoes, and (4) cannons. Before the ship was scrapped, there were 861 holes larger than a man's fist and thousands of 0.50 caliber machine gun holes. (3) pages 19-20, (2) pages 7-8, (1) page 37-38. Same as the fighter attack, basically the Israelis expended all of their ordnance and then just opened up with machine-guns, possibly to keep the sailors from activating a new radio line. They threw everything they had at the USS Liberty, trying to sink a defenseless vessel that they had confirmed to be American.

http://members.greenpeace.org/blog/greenpeaceusa_blog/2009/04/16/here_there_be_pirates
(near the end)
Many are saying that the Italians are dumping nuclear waist in Somalia waters. And the Italians are working for the French to dump their waist.

My dear Mr. Dickey, how can you say this: "First, negotiate with the pirates and keep them talking. (For the legalistic Americans, this could be complicated by a problem with definitions. If the pirates are deemed to be terrorists or working with terrorists, then talks would be precluded. The United States does not negotiate with terrorists. So, for the moment at least, it's important that they be identified exclusively as criminals.) "

Were you paying attention when the United States not only negotiated with terrorists in Iraq but hired them and paid them as local armed "citizens" to promote the surge?
Pirates, like terrorists, are indeed criminals acting en masse and ought to be given no quarter, no chance to escape as Bin Laden and the Taliban did in Afghanistan. No need for endless war on terror or on piracy. But our leaders need to finish what they start and do it right.

Please Note: "PIRATES" fall into the "TARGET" category.This should be explained to them,and they should acknowledge that they have been told.Then when they head out on one of these trips,knowing that NOT coming home is probably a very likely outcome,they may wish to alter their vocation.

Pirates perform an illegal task that puts them in the "target" category.It is my assumption that the paths that ships take in this area are designated for ship use,correct me if wrong.Therefore if individuals perform life threatening acts against those not acting against laws allowing their use in that area,then those performing life threatening acts against them should be dealt with by their own people and laws.Obviously the fact that piracy exists without recourse of any kind from their own country means it's obviously condoned by that country.It then means if they don't deal with it the victim must.If I
was legally in an area where I knew I was supposed to be safe but wasnt ,I'd be armed going there to protect myself from a threat to my life and I would "take out those threats".I can't help but condone the actions of snipers taking out theivery on the water.I also feel that if there's a way of locating these people on land via a bribe here and there,then do it.
These are kids 17 to 19 years old,who set them up or told them this was a way to make a living.Something is basically wrong here and I have to believe it's beyond kids.

time for our elected representatives to do what they were "hired" to do, represent!
the american people have no need to experience the moral stances of our representative, thier job is to do as we(the majority) wish, and we could care less what thier personal moral imperatives are, for those are exactly like thier sexual and religious preferences, personal and none of our business!

we have for generations been told to pay for trillions in military equipment to do certain jobs and the time of crisis is not the time to retink the plan that was made when we bought the bombs, planes, tanks etc.

use them, period! when we as a people are threatened, that is the specific job of those representative, nothing else will do!

hang all pirates at sea or just throw them over the side and let them swim. also if you know where the pirate ship sails from just level the port with a fuel oil bomb and let god sort them out once or twice would give them the idea it is not a good career being a pirate.