February 13, 2012
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Swedish naval personnel arrested seven pirates in the Gulf of Aden in the early hours of Tuesday morning, according to a statement from the Swedish Armed Forces.
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Bet they were downloading the new Wolverine film via bit torrent... or may some of Britney Spheres crap...
Was the new FRA law used or the IPRED laws?
Wait a sec, why did these guys have RPGs and machine guns?
No dvds or music?
Can it be that theres actually a difference between raping and pillaging, stealing and killing... and a 16 year old pimply guy(or girl) copying a file from the internet?
Perish the thought.., that would mean the media industries have been lying to us for ages.
Which we all know would/could never be the case...
Right?
it's a fact that somali lacks central gormening sytem.somalis on the other hand don't follow the laws of nature.most will always tend to be barbaric not because they want to be but due to the fact that they didn't have a goverment for almost 20 yrs,no schools,hospitals,law enforcements actually nothing...is such a situation not comparable to animal life in the jungle????
Back to the issue of piracy...Since it began, with all the media coverage has anybody tried to ask oneself the ROOT CAUSE of piracy?
Who really knows what was going on in the somali waters that might have triggered counter reaction from the somalis that transformed into piracy due to greedy individuals?
There has been claims that some companies have been dumping toxic and possibly radioactive waste there for a long long time,and also presence of Large scale fishing companies, illegal transpassing of somali waters.
Somalians would soon discover how lucrative piracy can be, and hide behind the facade that foreign fishers are stealing their lively hood. While this may be true for some, they are not the majority, nor does it in anyway condone their actions. Especially attacking World Food Aid ships bringing shipments to their own f**king country.
@oceans2ocean: about time somebody did something? Wasn't too long ago the US kinda sniped the sh*t out of 4 of them. We don't speak ransom...poke the sleeping giant and die. Perhaps that is why we don't have any prisoners there, like so many other countries do.
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/Somalia/
where are they now?
hope is not in a swedish prison ,so they can wait donfortably for their asylum requests to get thru, for them and their bros,sisters, grandmas , and everyone in the neighborhood.
I need a pirate history lesson. Hasn't Somalia been like, a pirate base, for centuries? In the dim recesses of my mind I vaguely remember that the Americans went after these guys back in the 1700s. Or was that another North African area?