Swedish navy set to join hunt for pirates off Somali coast

Mmmm. IMO that will be a great help!

*keep the flag flying,what*

I still don't understand how these "pirates" get away with this !

They were putting US Marshals on airplanes... so why don't they add a guy on each boat that can shoot/blow up these idiots and their piece of crap fishing boats before they even get near the ships.

Have you seen any interviews of these pirates? Bunch of boneheads!

The Swedish ships will come under direct attack by the pirates.

The will be hoping that they will get captured and face the full force of the Swedish justice system and get sentenced to a long term in a Swedish hard labour prison.

Then after 2 months of 5 star pampered Swedish prison luxury they will apply for refugee status

ROFL...nice.

how do these pirates get automatic weapons,i dont think weapons are manufactured in somali,,,so where on earth do the weapons come from...?

The weapons are either left-over Cold War stock or recently purchased with loot money. They could also have been provided by military advisors from other nations, etc. It's almost impossible to trace weapons in Africa because everybody wants to make money exporting them to that part of the world.

On another note, I'm glad to see that the Swedish Navy is expanding its role. I wonder if they will send a Visby corvette, or a larger mine tender.

Actually Sarah Michelle Gellar is preggers so she might not want to go.

Sounds good because they have a lot of balls.

Personally I'd like to see a task force set up which comprises of the people and hardware from various 80's gimmick shows.



Air Support

Airwolf, would of course be an obvious 1st choice. It would be great to see how much these piratical oafs would enjoy having a new arsehole shot out for them buy a facking great helicopter with chain guns, rocket launchers, stealth mode with a supersonic speed option. Blue Thunder could act as back up auxiliary (forever the shitty second fiddle).

Naval/Marine

Automan dragging KITT (in ski mode) would be a fair challenge for any peg legged, eye patch wearing fuzzy wuzzy looking to 'get it up him'. Automan's bright flashy exterior and KITT shouting out his pissy put-downs would be the perfect distraction that could allow The A-Team to catch our fly-blown friends unawares. Just imagine, one minute your firing indiscriminately at a bright fast moving 'Sprite' and it's accompanying loudmouth homosexual motor vehicle, the next you've got cabbages being volleyed into the back of your head and a groin full of highly pressurised soda in a surprise attack by a motley bunch of ne'er do wells launched from some recently acquired old tub held together by Gaffa tape and implausibility.

Artillary/Ground Support.

BJ & The Bear could take care of supply chain logistics, though BJ might want to keep a safe eye on his 'Bear', lest he end up feeding an African family of 8. Peripherals, such as empty boxes would be the responsibility of Fall Guy, with guard dog duties being handled by Manimal and Vincent from Beauty & The Beast. Street Hawk, Bo and Luke Duke could act as a reconnaissance scouts, with Daisy Duke taking care of catering, housekeeping and sexually laden double entendres.

LOL. BJ & the Bear!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fm_photography/2656410312/

its got something to do with pirates Bob??

What no 40mm Bofors?

*Haha..acoustics and slippery foam* :joke:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7999974.stm

my position has always been a comprehensive and peaceful solution and attending to the root cause of Somalia's sea piracy, not military solution.

Somalia Piracy Began in Response to Illegal Fishing and Toxic Dumping by Western companies Ships off Somali Coast. i think we have take look what caused for this problem and solve the grass root levels.

How are we going to resume with your peaceful solution? Whom are we going to discuss with?

Not anyone with authority in Somalia,there is no such person or authority. It's every Somalian for him/herself period.

They are pirates and should be dealt with accordingly, no different today as it was 100's of years in the past..

*live by the gun,die by the gun,there are no excuses*

Mzungu, Well its really complicated poeple dont understand either they are watching tv or it remains pirates of Carrabien or they think its funny but the

truth off pirates in somalia has deeply issue there is a reason why this started because majority of somalis ,

people beleive there is Illegal Fishing and Toxic Dumping waste by coast of somalia..... So when the international community trying solve those pirates also they must focus those companies who are damping the coast as Illigal.... than everything will be fine as usual..

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The fact is there is no rule of law in Somalia. Unscrupulous poeple in Somalia likely pay crooked companies to dump so called toxic waste, because of the lawlessness, that I cannot confirm either way.

Illegal fishing off the African continent is par to the course, if a country is unable to patrol their own territorial waters it's going to happen, but it's no reason to take up piracy. If that was so, half of the world would follow suit...

*afraid an iron fist is the requirement*

Mzungu,

actually you rised very importan question about the current political situation in somaia...

but let me tell you one thing piracy of somalia its one of the symptom of bigger problem.

For this reason the current attempts to fight piracy from the sea are only dealing with symptoms. They do not address the reasons why young men are prepared to risk their lives chasing ships around the ocean.

So the international community must find way out for perment solution the crisis of somalia by political means.. than for once and all the piracy will disappear from the heahdlines...

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Am afraid Somalia's problem like many other countries in Africa is not one for the UN or Europe. The western world has been told many a time by African heads of state, to mind your own buisness, "Africans will solve African problems", am still waiting.

However if there is no government or head of state of a country, which in the meantime has become a rough state,like a rabid dog it has to be put out of it's misery, or convert to the rule of law.

*simple really*

So kill all Somalis found at sea? Sure a few fishing crews will die but that's the risk they take for having a failed state, right? But no punishment for the Ethiopians & thier USA backers of the 2007 invasion of Somalia that sent it into an evan less stable state, right?