On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:46:53 -0500, wrote:

On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:38:47 -0800, wrote:

On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 20:09:03 -0500, wrote:

On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:38:08 -0800, wrote:

On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 02:18:55 -0500, wrote:

On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:01:38 -0800, wrote:

I think we are only going to put a halt to the piracy when we sacrifice a
few hundred hostages held in Somalia and drop some huge conventional bombs
on the home areas of the pirates. Let god sort out who gets to go to heaven
and who goes elsewhere. Make the penalty huge for piracy. We will not do
it because of the collateral damage but that is probably one of the only
ways to stop the pirates. Most of the ones we kill are minor players. Not
the chiefs who are taking 80% of the ransom. Or figure out who the chiefs
are and destroy there home area.

So, it's ok to kill a bunch of innocent civilians? I guess there's no
reason to believe that most of these pirates are just acting out of
economic reality. The ultimate solution is a better economy in the
region.


$100m ransoms are not basic subsistence in a country where the average
annual income is about the price on an I phone.

Some day we will be asking "where is the money going"?

...OR ...

... We may be standing over another smoking hole in the ground and
know where some of it went.


Huh? Your solution is to bomb Somalia?

Try to keep up, I am the guy who wants to profile the mother ships and
sink them.

I didn't realize that blowing up a mother ship would create a smoking
hole in the ground. Perhaps you can clarify.

I still think this is a lot more serious than a few people being
killed or kidnapped. Have we ever really figured out who is getting
this money and what they are doing with it? They are certainly not
****ing it away on hookers and beer.

http://publicintelligence.net/money-...good-business/


The total cost of 9-11 was estimated to be less than $500,000 and you
are not concerned about $100 million dollar ransoms in a place where
Al Qaeda is one of the most powerful forces.
That can easily lead to another big smoking hole in the downtown of
some big city..

The total cost of 9/11 is about $2 TRILLION AND CLIMBING. Bush ignored
warnings that it was going to happen, then invaded a country that had
nothing to do with it. I guess when you get a memo that says OBL
determined to attack the US, it's ok to file it in the round file.


You have demonstrated how easy it is to launder money and you know
there are 100 guys as smart as bin laden, just not as rich.
Now they are rich.
This piracy is a clear and present danger to the US, certainly more
than some broke assed Taliban guys running around Kanahar.


Sounds like revisionist history to me. Maybe NOW the Taliban aren't
rich (OBL certainly still is) and they aren't attacking the US sans a
few people who were warned about going there (kind of reminds me of
those hikers who got arrested by Iran).