From Yahoo News/AP:VIENNA, Austria – Special maritime police should patrol the Horn of Africa coastline to arrest the Somali pirates who have been preying on commercial shipping, the head of the U.N. anti-crime agency aid Tuesday.
"Pirates cannot be keelhauled or forced to walk the plank, nor should they be dumped off the Somali coast. They need to be brought to justice," said Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the Vienna-based U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime.
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My Comment: Another U.N. program .... great .... by the time such a thing is organized my children will be collecting pensions. The best way for the U.N. to participate in this problem is to provide some form of international legal framework to legitimize the arrest and prosecution of pirates. By providing this framework .... this will help substantially in laying the groundwork to stop this problem.
But knowing our luck .... the U.N. will be looking at this problem only within 2 to 3 years.
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