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Default 4 sailors killed by pirates
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:15:39 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:18:59 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:44:22 -0500, wrote:

It would be
trivial at that point to separate the freighters and fishermen from
the pirates.

Unfortunately the only difference between Somali fisherman and pirates
is guns and opportunity. Frequently they are one and the same, and
there are a lot of them. Imagine trying to track all of the fishing
boats off the coast of Florida.

I bet they can find the mother ships. These are not coastal pirates.

As I understand it the mother ships are more like our local shrimp
boats here, perhaps smaller. Those boats have a surprisingly long
operating range and are not all that large.

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