Photo: Suspected Pirate Mothership (Image from Black Flag Cafe)

Navies Must Target Pirate ‘Mother Ships’ Off Somalia
-- National Post

LONDON -- International naval forces operating off the coast of Somalia must be prepared to take on pirate ‘mother ships' if they are to stem rampant piracy, a senior maritime official said on Thursday.

"We want pre-emptive action against the mother ships before the pirates carry out a hijacking," said Captain Pottengal Mukundan, director of the London-based International Maritime Bureau, which monitors international piracy, referring to the ships pirates use as bases from which to launch attacks.

"The positions of the mother ships are generally known. What we would like to see is the naval vessels going to interdict them, searching them and removing any arms on board. That would at least force the pirates to go back to Somalia to pick up more arms before they could come back again," he told Reuters in an interview.

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My Comment: An news article that is stating the obvious.