Pirate-Hunting Cruises Off The Coast Of Somalia

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Luxury ocean liners in Russia are offering pirate hunting cruises aboard armed private yachts off the Somali coast.

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Comments

[Aabby]

04:28 PM on 07/09/2009

This can't be real.

[newmessage]

01:55 PM on 06/27/2009

A solution to the pirate crisis would be improving the condition of Somalia and getting it's waters under control, not sailing around shooting people.

[KillTheMessenger]

04:31 PM on 06/26/2009

It's so sadistic and disgusting that I fully believe it. Killing as adventure sports. It probably wouldn't be a first by a long shot, anyway.

[morris111]

04:29 PM on 06/26/2009

Gotta love free enterprise­!!

[Mo Ade]

02:19 PM on 06/26/2009

I am a somali, learnt the news from a somali web site www.hiiraa­n.com. interestin­g. Hope for news on this, both good and bad! few rich communist will be carried in body bags.

[MsJoanne]

02:07 PM on 06/26/2009

I wonder who is responsibl­e to rescue people if they get captured?

[judiNJ]

12:49 PM on 06/26/2009

Wow, what an idea for a relaxing summer vacation.

[DSOTM]

09:52 AM on 06/26/2009

This is so sick on so many levels

[Travis bdboy]

09:43 AM on 06/26/2009

I'll do it.......w­here can I meet the yacht

[MichaelMcKLA]

05:00 AM on 06/26/2009

Where do I sign up?

[ramblingjohnny]

01:54 AM on 06/26/2009

The Pirates have RPG! When these clowns get their a s s blown up am going to laugh a lot!

[drymartini1]

04:40 AM on 06/26/2009

well the armed guards are supposedly special forces. it should be an interestin­g fight !!

[Joethepauper]

08:09 AM on 06/26/2009

Me too! Live by the sword!

[smchp]

10:04 PM on 06/25/2009

ooooooh, this would be a neocons wet dream.

[drymartini1]

10:19 PM on 06/25/2009

you act as if is someone hunts down pirates, we are gonna miss those people !!

[smchp]

12:37 AM on 06/26/2009

does that make it right? Yea, let's hunt down those Mexican border jumpers while we are at it. How about using it to reduce prison crowding. We can make it like a Fox and Hound type hunting party and raise a bunch of money for christian charities. Yea....tha­t's the ticket.

[davidwayneosedach]

08:47 PM on 06/25/2009

Let's hope they make movies of their exploits! The pirates deserve payback. And they are going to get it. Big time!

[Joethepauper]

08:22 AM on 06/26/2009

The pirates deserve to have healthy and abundant fish along their coastline without corporate polluters dumping toxic and radioactiv­e waste in what should be soverign territory (that way they can resume being the poorest of poor fisherman in the world). If Exxon was dumping toxic waste off the Florida coastline, would some brave Americans try to stop them? For the people who think killing pirates is the solution, imagine yourself a poor Somali fisherman (pre pirating decision) starving with your family for months at a time. No jobs are available other than fishing and farming (and the fishermen can't afford land despite the fact that people already own all the fertile land.....a­nd it's not very fertile, anyway), and the government is beyond corrupt. How many people have the pirates actually killed? At last count, my numbers amounted to one Yemeni fisherman (who was probably fishing illegally and might have done something to provoke the pirate who killed him). I'm giving up on Americans understand­ing complex issues. Yeah, just shoot everyone you disagree with, that's how to create more problems, but it's what we do best.

[bannorhill]

08:59 AM on 06/26/2009

Please cite references do the dumping.

[timewillcome]

08:43 PM on 06/25/2009

WOW!

First Europeans dump Nuclear waste off their coast.

The Africans take up pirating to feed their families from the spoils of your massive exploitati­on.

Now they are hosting hunting parties?!?­!?!

Whites are f***ing eV il....

Our day will come

[StephenJK]

03:07 AM on 06/26/2009

Oh, thank you for lumping us "whites" in with these unconscien­able bastards. Very thoughtful of you.

[Joethepauper]

08:33 AM on 06/26/2009

Hey, someone who understand­s the underlying causes of the problem (but forgot to mention illegal corporate overfishin­g and TOXIC waste-dump­ing. I wonder which tastes better as a fish aftertaste­: toxic or nuclear waste. I'm sure neither bring out the flavor of the fish as well as good wine, but I digress). I don't agree with the second to last line, but that's more correct than incorrect if you look at the whole of human history. As for the last line, I think it has, we just don't realize it yet.

[ThatOne4Me]

07:59 PM on 06/25/2009

Minute Men at Sea

[JScott]

11:33 AM on 06/26/2009

Yup when it's easy they'll do it but the minute they feel even remotely threated-w­hining and they're outta there.