Somali Pirates Threaten To Murder More Hostages After Deaths Of Four Americans -- The Guardian
• Reinforcements being ferried out to hijacked vessels
• Those detained after killings may be tried in US
Pirates in Somalia have said they are ferrying ammunition and men to the 30 hijacked vessels under their control, and threatened to kill more captives following the violent end to a hostage standoff that left four Americans dead.
The US military said that 15 Somali pirates detained after the killings on Tuesday could face trial in the United States. The pirates are being held on the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise off East Africa. The FBI is investigating the killings of Phyllis Macay and Bob Riggle, of Seattle, and Jean and Scott Adam, of Los Angeles, who had made their home aboard their yacht Quest since December 2004.
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Update: Don’t Expect The World’s Navies to Save You from Pirates -- The Danger Room
My Comment: This is now escalating to a point that foreign navies (and governments) will need to make decisions in which many lives of many hostages will probably be lost. But faced with the alternative of doing nothing .... the Somali pirate problem will only escalate even further.
Here is my own take on the piracy problem:
ReplyDeleteThis is 2011! Why do we still have pirates?