By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN NEW YORK TIMES
A RISE IN PIRACY’S PRICE…
SOMALI SOLUTION PIRACY INTERNATIONAL HIJACKING FEAR HATE CRIMES S.O.S S.O.W. AWARDS
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*** Before you get into the article that everybody has posted on the Internet because the basic information comes from the International wire service. Here are some non violent solutions that can and will work:***
1) Invasion is insane as was Iraq and Afghanistan.
2) Missiles, bombing last resort if at all.
3) Satellite monitoring: Non violent and cheap and accurate They’re already up there and they can see a whole lot better then ships planes etc..
4) Radio,T.V. broadcasting dropping pamphlets telling them what the International limits are and what the consequence’s will be if they persist
5) Next summit meeting at the U.N or G8, 20 come up with a Universal agreement on how to put and end to this harassment and then inform Somali what it is. They have been taking advantage of the non unification of all the countries. The only ones they fear is Israel and China because they don’t threaten (they do.)
6) Setting up a platform(s) like oil platforms off the International limits, there is oil out there they would help off set the costs. From these platforms they could monitor their moves with the satellites broadcast Radio, T.V. submissions while blocking their radars and other technical devices Internet etc. From the platforms they could have Air to Air, Air to Ground portable rockets and a small force of International Gorilla Special Forces.
7) Tell them that if they persist their harbors and bays will be mined and then do it if they don’t respect the International warnings.
8) Catch a couple of them and then prosecute them on International T.V. And sentence them to a life time of hard labor. Execution would make them a martyr for their cause.
Here are some solutions without causing bloodshed.
The simple phrase.”Spare the rod Spoil the child.” Is appropriate here. Like children, which they are, they will push it until they are reprimanded. The longer they aren’t the bolder they’ll get.
Sending in a Army is a bad and it gets a lot people killed.
Now here’s the article. If think I am right contact your Congress person and send them my blog.***
AT some point, Thomas Jefferson realized, you just can’t do business with pirates any more.
For years, the infant American government, along with many others, had accepted the humiliating practice of paying tribute — essentially mob-style protection fees — to a handful of rulers in the Barbary states so that American ships crossing the Mediterranean would not get hijacked. But in 1801, Tripoli’s pasha, Yusuf Karamanli, tried to jack up his prices. Jefferson said no. And when the strongman turned his pirates loose on American ships, Jefferson sent in the Navy to bombard Tripoli, starting a war that eventually brought the Barbary states to their knees. Rampant piracy went to sleep for nearly 200 years.
The question now is: Are we nearing another enough-is-enough moment with pirates?
On Tuesday, Somali pirates shot and killed four American hostages. A single hostage intentionally killed by these pirates had been almost unheard of; four dead was unprecedented. Until now, the first thing that came to mind about Somalia’s buccaneers was that they were brash and mercurial. Just a few weeks ago they let go some Sri Lankan fishermen after they essentially said, “You’re poor, like us.” They were seen as a nuisance, albeit an expensive one, but not a lethal threat.
Exactly what happened Tuesday is still murky. Pirates in the Arabian Sea had hijacked a sailboat skippered by a retired couple from California, and when the American Navy closed in, the pirates got twitchy. Navy Seals rushed aboard but it was too late. It’s still not clear why the pirates would want to kill the hostages when their business model, which has raked in more than $100 million in the past few years, is based on ransoming captives alive.
“Of course, I do not know what the U.S. will do in response to this latest atrocity,” said Frank Lambert, a professor at Purdue who is an expert on the Barbary pirates. But, he said, “Jefferson advocated an armed response and eventually war against Tripoli for far less provocation.”
For years now, Somali pirates with fiberglass skiffs and salt-rusted Kalashnikovs have been commandeering ships along one of the most congested shipping routes in the world — the Gulf of Aden, a vital conduit for Middle East oil to Europe and the United States. More than 50 vessels are now held captive, from Thai fishing trawlers to European supertankers, with more than 800 hostages. Those numbers grow each year.
But the international response has been limited, partly because the most promising remedies are intensely complicated and risky. Western powers, including the United States, have sent warships to cruise Somalia’s coast and discourage attacks. When a vessel is hijacked, ship owners cough up a ransom, nowadays in the neighborhood of $5 million, and most of that cost gets passed to the end user — consumers. Until recently, most hostages would emerge unharmed, albeit skinny and pale from being locked in a filthy room. The average time in captivity is around six months.
But recently the pirates have been getting more vicious; reports have emerged of beatings, of being hung upside down, even of being forced at gunpoint to join in raids. And now the pirates have gunned down four Americans.
“I think there’s going to be some type of retaliation,” said a European diplomat in Nairobi, Kenya, who trades ideas on anti-piracy strategies with other diplomats and was instructed not to speak publicly about the issues. “I could see the Americans going after the pirate bosses, the organizers, maybe even blockade some of the ports that they use,” he speculated. “I don’t think the Americans are going to invade Somalia, because of Iraq and Afghanistan, but they can use local allies.” Another obvious possibility would be American Special Forces, who have killed terrorism suspects in Somalia.
The American government isn’t revealing its plans but officials suggest — as long as they are not quoted by name — that the killings of the four Americans could be a game-changer. “We get it,” said one State Department official. “We get the need to recalibrate.”
Any course of action, however, will confront two huge obstacles: the immensity of the sea and the depth of chaos in Somalia.
The pirates used to stick relatively close to Somalia’s shores. But now, using “mother ships” — hijacked vessels that serve as floating bases — they attack ships more than 1,000 miles away. Sometimes that puts them closer to India than to home. The red zone now covers more than one million square miles of water, an area naval officers say is impossible to control.
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