Britain to lead fleet of EU warships to tackle pirates, page 1

Britain to lead fleet of EU warships to tackle pirates

www.guardian.co.uk

Britain is to lead an armada of EU warships to the Gulf of Aden next month to tackle the escalating problem of piracy in a mission expected to last 12 months.

Russia today came up with its own proposal - land operations against the bases of Somali pirates.

Dmitry Rogozin, Russia's ambassador to Nato, said the view of Russian experts was that naval action alone, even involving a large fleet of a powerful nation, would not be enough to defeat the pirates, given Somalia's geo-strategic position.

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Is the Eu gonna eradicate these 'pirates' by sea and the russians by land? or are we gonna have two massive powers fighting there own operations .. right next to each other.

i hope they co-operate and deal with this threat, however i wonder to myself why are these pirates doing this ? are they plain stupid? attacking the super tanker filled with saudi oil.

are they in it just for the money? possibly .. the last bunch demanded 20 mil? or was it 4 mil .

or just plain good old fashion piracy !! ahaaa matey.



www.guardian.co.uk
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[edit to delete sentence with iran reference.. tanker is Saudi owned ..not iranian for some reason i thought i heard somewhere was an iranian ship carrying SA oil .. must have been mistaken]

[edit on 19/11/08 by Quantum_Squirrel]

reply to post by kvaniu

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How is “a couple of centuries ago” the “recent past”? Maybe if we’re talking about continental drift but we’re talking about piracy. Are you honestly suggesting that Britain should just do nothing? Well going by that logic we used to condone assassinations didn’t we and have civil wars so maybe we should let all the murderers and gang leaders go free; after all Britain doesn’t have the moral pedigree to condemn them does it!

I don’t normally get annoyed this easily but it’s when people with these truly moronic views get together en masse that we start having so much trouble deporting foreign murderers or, ironically, detaining pirates!

reply to post by Vitchilo

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It's difficult to help a nation that doesn't want help. Right now you've got several different warlords and factions fighting in Somalia for control, there is no genuine government there, whatever form of organization they have tends to fail rather quickly.

The Muslim force is promising to end piracy should they take Mogadishu.

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