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This is how pirates should be handled,although it does look like their special forces failed to shoot 5 pirates.


SKorea storms Somali pirates to rescue ship crew - FoxNews.com

South Korean special forces stormed a hijacked freighter in the Arabian Sea on Friday, rescuing all 21 crew members and killing eight assailants in a rare and bold raid on Somali pirates, South Korea said.

The military operation in waters between Oman and Africa, which also captured five pirates and left one crew member wounded, came a week after the Somali attackers seized the South Korean freighter and held hostage eight South Koreans, two Indonesians and 11 citizens from Myanmar.

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This type of action is rare so meh :shrug:
Demonstrated by the fact Somali Pirates have increased in 2010

Pirates took a record 1,181 hostages in 2010, despite increased patrolling of the seas, a maritime watchdog has said.

The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said 53 ships were hijacked worldwide - 49 of them off Somalia's coast - and eight sailors were killed.
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BBC News - Pirates seized record 1,181 hostages in 2010 - report

And many Pirates are changing tactics to avoid being touched by navies
Somali pirates' use of "mother ships" to attack their prey is complicating foreign navies' efforts to improve safety in the Indian Ocean, a senior anti-piracy commander said Friday.

Somalia's expanding army of pirates are increasingly launching their attacks from large, already hijacked vessels that offer greater physical protection during boarding and whose kidnapped crews act as human shields.
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hLBIueQsXrci2kCAB4CVWocxWn2g?docId=CNG.ae397daff87cc1e47b63c5af72d5b9ae.951
 
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South Korea has one of the best armed forces in the world. I'm not at all surprised by this victory or Korean valor. Congratulations to them.
 
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jamesrage said:
This is how pirates should be handled,although it does look like their special forces failed to shoot 5 pirates. South Korean special forces stormed a hijacked freighter in the Arabian Sea on Friday, rescuing all 21 crew members and killing eight assailants in a rare and bold raid on Somali pirates, South Korea said.

The military operation in waters between Oman and Africa, which also captured five pirates and left one crew member wounded, came a week after the Somali attackers seized the South Korean freighter and held hostage eight South Koreans, two Indonesians and 11 citizens from Myanmar.

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Y.E.S.!!!!!

Derail -- this is sooo powerful, James:

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear"
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There should be a thread about it . . .
 
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Congrats to the Koreans. ROK special forces are some tough sons a bitches.
 
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jamesrage said:
This is how pirates should be handled,although it does look like their special forces failed to shoot 5 pirates.


SKorea storms Somali pirates to rescue ship crew - FoxNews.com

South Korean special forces stormed a hijacked freighter in the Arabian Sea on Friday, rescuing all 21 crew members and killing eight assailants in a rare and bold raid on Somali pirates, South Korea said.

The military operation in waters between Oman and Africa, which also captured five pirates and left one crew member wounded, came a week after the Somali attackers seized the South Korean freighter and held hostage eight South Koreans, two Indonesians and 11 citizens from Myanmar.

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A .50 Caliber machine gun with 5000 rounds on every boat is a good way to take care of pirates. ;)
 
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Laila said:
This type of action is rare so meh :shrug:
Demonstrated by the fact Somali Pirates have increased in 2010



BBC News - Pirates seized record 1,181 hostages in 2010 - report

And many Pirates are changing tactics to avoid being touched by navies


AFP: Smarter Somali pirates thwarting navies, NATO admits
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The increase of pirates is due to the fact that countries and companies have financed them. BY paying out ransoms they finance these scumbags and are no better than the pirates themselves.
 
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American said:
A .50 Caliber machine gun with 5000 rounds on every boat is a good way to take care of pirates. ;)
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I think they would need more than one .50 cal.Maybe like 4 or more depending on the size of the ship because those things are heavy.
 
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jamesrage said:
This is how pirates should be handled,although it does look like their special forces failed to shoot 5 pirates.


SKorea storms Somali pirates to rescue ship crew - FoxNews.com

South Korean special forces stormed a hijacked freighter in the Arabian Sea on Friday, rescuing all 21 crew members and killing eight assailants in a rare and bold raid on Somali pirates, South Korea said.

The military operation in waters between Oman and Africa, which also captured five pirates and left one crew member wounded, came a week after the Somali attackers seized the South Korean freighter and held hostage eight South Koreans, two Indonesians and 11 citizens from Myanmar.

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How callous... they didn't even try to dialogue with them.
Don't they know warring against people like this solves nothing?
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zimmer said:
How callous... they didn't even try to dialogue with them.
Don't they know warring against people like this solves nothing?
(tongue in cheek icon)
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In this instance. Congrats to the Koreans for a successful operation.

As for the overall problem. Killing will not solve it... entirely.

Unless you're willing to destroy every coastal town capable of launching a skiff in Somalia.
 
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randel said:
kudos to the south koreans...but your post is garbage.
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I agree. America can do anything South Korea can, but America can do it better.
 
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RebeccaChambers said:
I agree. America can do anything South Korea can, but America can do it better.
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Did you read the Fernandez article? If so, do you have any comments.
 
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American servicemen have all the training and equipment South Koreans have. But South Korea is impervious to the power of political correctness. That's why the South Koreans can act effectively without fear of being undermined by their govt., and why Americans and Europeans are hamstrung into ineffective inaction.

China, Japan, South Korea and other Asian lands are powerful and are not hamstrung by their own political culture. Americans and Europeans are simply ineffective.
 
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Albert Di Salvo said:
American servicemen have all the training and equipment South Koreans have. But South Korea is impervious to the power of political correctness. That's why the South Koreans can act effectively without fear of being undermined by their govt., and why Americans and Europeans are hamstrung into ineffective inaction.

China, Japan, South Korea and other Asian lands are powerful and are not hamstrung by their own political culture. Americans and Europeans are simply ineffective.
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Aren't they hamstrung by their constitution that disallows them to be an offensive force? But a defensive one?
 
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Jetboogieman said:
Aren't they hamstrung by their constitution that disallows them to be an offensive force? But a defensive one?
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Japan has the best Navy in East Asia at the moment. But they are being overtaken by the Chinese.
China’s Rise = Remilitarizing Japan? | The Diplomat

Chinese assertiveness in a series of disputes with Japan has shaken Japanese confidence. They see the handwriting on the wall as far as America's ultimate withdrawal from East Asia and the Western Pacific, and they are faced with a choice. They can either bandwagon with China and become a satellite, or they can do what Japanese have done for the last eight hundred years, ie., resist Chinese domination. It was Yuan China that twice tried to invade Japan, and which gave rise to the myth of the kamikazee.

Article Nine of the Japanese Constitution will be revised if the Japanese decide to take the latter course of action.
 
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randel said:
kudos to the south koreans...but your post is garbage.
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Yoo Hoo. Oh Yoo Hoo randel. Where art thou randel? I know you're still here. Come out. Yoo Hoo.
 
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randel said:
kudos to the south koreans...but your post is garbage.
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Ever worked with the ROK's? If you haven't, then you need to take that back and apologize for being so uninformed.

Albert is right on target with his post. ROK's aren't bound by dumbass ROE's, like western armies are.
 
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Jetboogieman said:
Aren't they hamstrung by their constitution that disallows them to be an offensive force? But a defensive one?
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That's probably a negative. South Korea sent troops to Vietnam. You could be thinking about Japan. I know they all look the same to you.
 
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First the South Koreans kick ass, now the Malaysians kick ass:


Malaysian commandos free tanker off Somalia(AFP) – 1 day ago

KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysian naval commandos have rescued 23 crew and captured seven Somali pirates following a firefight to free a hijacked oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden, according to reports.

The commandos were called in after the Malaysian tanker MT Bunga Laurel, sent out a distress call late Thursday after pirates armed with AK-47 assault rifles boarded and took control of the ship.

State media said the tanker was headed to Singapore with a cargo of oil worth more than 30 million ringgit (10 million dollars) when it was hijacked.

Malaysian navy chief Admiral Abdul Aziz Jaafar said the commandos, who were manning a commercial vessel protecting shipping in the area, responded to the distress call.

He said one of the navy's Fennec attack helicopters was also involved in rescue, according to the New Straits Times newspaper Saturday, which ran a front page picture of the captured pirates held at gunpoint.

"The attack helicopter kept the pirate's mother ship at bay with several rounds of machine-gun fire while the commandos boarded the tanker," he told the paper.

"The pirates were overpowered after a ... gun battle which saw three of them (pirates) suffering gunshot wounds," Abdul Aziz said.

He said the crew were uninjured as they had locked themselves in a safe room after setting off the ship's security alert system.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak praised the swift action by the navy.

"We will determine what we should do (with the pirates), whether we are going to bring them here (Malaysia) to be tried or take any other appropriate action," he told the Star daily.

South Korean navy commandos on Friday stormed a ship hijacked by Somali pirates, rescuing all the 21 crew and killing eight pirates.

Piracy has surged off lawless Somalia in recent years, and international warships patrol the area in a bid to clamp down on the problem.

Three Malaysian ships have previously been seized, with the Malaysian International Shipping Corporation, which operates the MT Bunga Laurel, and the Malaysian navy joining forces in 2009 to man a commercial vessel used in escorting and protecting shipping in the area. AFP: Malaysian commandos free tanker off Somalia


Does any one notice a pattern? Huh? Haha.
 
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apdst said:
That's probably a negative. South Korea sent troops to Vietnam. You could be thinking about Japan. I know they all look the same to you.
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If you look at your post that he quoted, he was infact talking about Japan, as can be evidenced by that he bolded and underlined it. :)
 
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Yoo Hoo...:)
 
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