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  • Maybe the Greeks should ask the Russians for some help.

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    • They were released in an inflatable boat without navigational equipment.

      Within an hour, contact was lost with the boat's radio beacon, the defence source said.

      "It seems that they all died," the unnamed source was quoted as saying by Russia's Interfax news agency.
      BBC, News, BBC News, news online, world, uk, international, foreign, british, online, service


      Yes...quite.
      "Attack your attic with a Steyr....as seen on the Late Late Show..."

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      • Can just imagine the russians making that conference.. 'Yeah we dropped them off somewhere in the ocean'. No harm done that they disappeared i think. Wonder if they even gave them an engine or just said here's 2 oars, off u go!
        Life's short, party naked :-)

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        • It is a solution.

          You cant send them home to face justice, their is none, you can't bring them with you, they'll just end up being refugees.

          You have to release them.
          Where you release them is unspecific.


          Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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          • It'll also send a message to the other pirates.Don't mess with the Russians or they'll send a big fast heavily armed warship with a complement of rock-hard, no-crap Marines or Spetznatz aboard, ready to give the good news to low-lifes..............I wonder could we hire them to do some "intervention" in gangland Dublin
            regards
            GttC

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            • HMS Chatham destroys pirate boats

              Royal Navy Type 22 frigate HMS Chatham, currently deployed as NATO's counter-piracy flagship, has destroyed two boats after intercepting a group of suspected pirates in the Somali Basin.
              In a co-ordinated search with an EU Naval Force maritime patrol aircraft, operating out of the Seychelles, HMS Chatham's Lynx helicopter spotted a larger vessel towing the two attack boats approximately 150 miles (240km) off the coast of Tanzania on Friday 14 May 2010.




              After monitoring the vessel through the night, at dawn, in a well planned operation, the pirates were forced to surrender by the overwhelming force posed by HMS Chatham, her Lynx helicopter and fast boats containing the ship's Royal Marines detachment.

              The Royal Marines team boarded the larger craft and found ten Somalis and a large amount of fuel on board; the suspected pirates had been observed throwing items, including their weapons and other piracy-related equipment, into the sea.

              The two smaller attack boats were fitted with powerful outboard engines and again contained a considerable amount of fuel. These were separated from the larger craft by the Royal Marines team and HMS Chatham and her Lynx helicopter used their combined firepower to destroy the smaller craft, ensuring that the suspected pirates could not continue with their mission.

              Disarmed and without the means to commit an act of piracy, the ten Somalis were left with only enough fuel in the larger vessel to return to Somalia.

              (© Crown Copyright/MOD 2010)

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              • Eh? WHy not take out the larger vessel and give them one small boat with enough fuel to get back to somalian waters?
                "The Question is not: how far you will take this? The Question is do you possess the constitution to go as far as is needed?"

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                • Originally posted by ZULU View Post
                  Eh? WHy not take out the larger vessel and give them one small boat with enough fuel to get back to somalian waters?
                  I can never understand that either.

                  (Mind you, why not go the whole hog, and give them a sheet of tarp, and tell 'em to improvise a sail?)
                  'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
                  'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
                  Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
                  He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.
                  http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html

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                  • Originally posted by ZULU View Post
                    Eh? WHy not take out the larger vessel and give them one small boat with enough fuel to get back to somalian waters?
                    I bet some crap about Human Rights seeped into it!!!

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                    • BBC, News, BBC News, news online, world, uk, international, foreign, british, online, service
                      'History is a vast early warning system'. Norman Cousins

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                      • EU NAVFOR warship FS Nivôse in exchange of fire



                        EU NAVFOR warship FS Nivôse returned fire after being shot at, outside of Mogadishu harbour the 20th of May. The assault immediately stopped and none of the two merchant vessels, which she were tasked to escort, were hit.

                        Early Thursday morning, the 20 of May, EU NAVFOR warship FS Nivôse were approaching Mogadishu, to start an escort of MS Alpha Kirawira and Petra 1, that just unloaded supply for AMISOM, the African Union forces in Somalia. Since gunfire was heard from the town, the commanding officer (CO) and the crew on Nivôse was extra cautious this morning.

                        When Nivôse is one nautical mile outside of Mogadishu and protecting the port the crew realise that they are shot at, from the shore outside the port. Impacts from small arms are observed in the water just 10 meters from the starboard side of the ship. Immediately the CO orders a response with a heavy machine gun from Nivôse.

                        After firing warning shots in the direction the fire was estimated to have come from, the assault ended. A detailed investigation of the hull later confirmed that the ship was untouched. None of the two merchant vessels were targets of the Somalia shootings.

                        Nivôse then proceeded with her duty and safely escorted the two merchant ships down to Mombasa.

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                        • EU NAVFOR warship HNLMS Johan de Witt block Pirate access to the sea

                          EU NAVFOR HNLMS Johan de Witt has effectively blocked known pirate camp on the Somali coast from access to the open sea.

                          As an amphibious ship, HNLMS Johan de Witt is able, from a dock within the ship, to launch a number of smaller vessels, LCVPs (Landing craft for vehicle and personnel transport), that can provide a blockading role on selected known pirate areas of the Somali coast.

                          Under orders from the Swedish EU NAVFOR Force Headquarters Ship Carlskrona, the warship Johan de Witt was positioned on the Somali coast to provide surveillance and reconnaissance patrols with the aim of gaining useful information while restricting and interdicting pirate movement on the coast. With the onset of the monsoon, increasingly poor weather conditions making pirate activities very difficult, creating an urgency amongst the pirates to get to sea quickly.

                          EU NAVFOR HNLMS Johan de Witt is providing an excellent blocking force and very effectively denying pirate access to the high sea at a time when worsening weather conditions is making pirate operations increasingly more difficult.


                          HNLMS Johan de Witt


                          LCVP off the Somali coast.

                          Last edited by Dogwatch; 25 May 2010, 23:45.

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                          • Don't mess with the Russians:

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                            • Originally posted by easyrider View Post
                              Don't mess with the Russians:
                              It is not clear if they removed the pirates from the ship before they blew it up...
                              "On the plains of hesitation, bleach the bones of countless millions, who on the very dawn of victory, laid down to rest, and in resting died.

                              Never give up!!"

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                              • "Why do u lie to me?"

                                It's a little ard to protest being innocent with 9 AK's & 2 pistols sitting beside you!
                                Life's short, party naked :-)

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