Don White wrote:
"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:49:33 -0500, JohnH wrote:

Harry, we're talking about ways to do in the pirates here
I think the answer as air power. Don't the Saudis have a few AWACs
planes. Loiter over the water off Somalia and profile any small boats
shadowing their ships. Call in some "air" with 500 lb IR guided bombs
to blow them out of the water from altitude. If these pirates discover
their boats are simply disappearing without a trace they might stop
going out.
For that matter the US could do that but we should do it covertly.
Officially we don't know why pirate boats are suddenly blowing up at
sea. Must be some kind of accident handling munitions or something.
Maybe they just have a batch of defective bilge blowers.

I am still not sure how these guys are sneaking up on a tanker. Don't
they have RADAR?
They do understand extreme violence. Air power is the answer. Find out
what village or town the pirates are from. Then just tell the pirates
that the village / town is going to be removed from the desert sands via
big bomb method. Then do it.

I say the world navies should declare a 'no go' zone to use as a shipping
channel. Any unauthorized boats step over the line...kaboom.
They'll get the message.



Click on this, dumbass, and tell me how that will work...

http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shiplocations.phtml