The Jihadist pirates of Somalia have been acting up. Something needs to be done, but nothing will.The media is sympathetic and Bush and Obambi will not do nothing. If Ethiopia moves against them, they’ll get labeled genocidal. In others words this act of Jihad piracy will continue.
Nov 19th 2008 | NAIROBI
From Economist.com
The significance of the latest attacks by Somali pirates
PIRATES do not win every encounter. On the evening of Tuesday November 18th an Indian warship attacked and destroyed a suspected Somali pirate boat in the Gulf of Aden, after the men on board had, reportedly, threatened to blow up the Indian craft. The pirates were said to be armed with guns and rocket-grenade launchers, and some escaped on speed boats. On the same day, however, other pirates in the Gulf of Aden did manage to grab a cargo ship carrying grain to Iran.
The pressure to tackle piracy off Somalia’s coast is growing by the day. The threat to merchant shipping in the region is now greater than it has been for decades. The taking of the leviathan 330-metre Saudi-owned Sirius Star in the high seas fully 450 nautical miles (833km) off the Kenyan coast, on Saturday, shows that all tankers heading to or from the Arabian Gulf and all cargo vessels using the Suez Canal are now at risk from pirates, no matter what course they hold to.
Why are Jihadists allowed to do what they want?
