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(CNN) -- A Ukrainian ship carrying tanks and ammunition has been seized
by pirates off the coast of Kenya, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry told
CNN..................

................The Russian patrol ship Neustrashimy, which left
Wednesday for the coast off Somalia, may help crack down on pirates, a
source in the Russian Baltic Fleet headquarters told Interfax-AVN on Friday.

And the Russian Navy's commander, Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky, told Interfax
that Russia plans to send combat ships to the Somali coast to fight piracy.

"We have such plans for the near future," he said. "However, Russian
ships will not be involved in any international operations. They will do
this job on their own."


http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa...nks/index.html

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(CNN) -- A Ukrainian ship carrying tanks and ammunition has been seized by
pirates off the coast of Kenya, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry told
CNN..................

...............The Russian patrol ship Neustrashimy, which left Wednesday
for the coast off Somalia, may help crack down on pirates, a source in the
Russian Baltic Fleet headquarters told Interfax-AVN on Friday.

And the Russian Navy's commander, Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky, told Interfax
that Russia plans to send combat ships to the Somali coast to fight
piracy.

"We have such plans for the near future," he said. "However, Russian ships
will not be involved in any international operations. They will do this
job on their own."


http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa...nks/index.html




McCain has suspended his campaign to deal with this matter. Sorry. LOL

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"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

On Sep 26, 5:56*pm, hpeer wrote:
...............The Russian patrol ship Neustrashimy, which left
Wednesday for the coast off Somalia, may help crack down on pirates, a
source in the Russian Baltic Fleet headquarters told Interfax-AVN on Friday.
....

Trust those pinkos to interfere with the Free Market! Freedom loving,
entrepreneurial Somalian fishermen have devised an innovative new
financial instrument that converts a small investment in boats and
RPGs into T-35 tanks and now the Regulators from Big Government are
using Taxpayer Money to butt in. They're Socializing the Sea!
Government isn't the solution, it's the problem!

--Tom.

wrote:
On Sep 26, 5:56 pm, hpeer wrote:
...............The Russian patrol ship Neustrashimy, which left
Wednesday for the coast off Somalia, may help crack down on pirates, a
source in the Russian Baltic Fleet headquarters told Interfax-AVN on Friday.
...

Trust those pinkos to interfere with the Free Market! Freedom loving,
entrepreneurial Somalian fishermen have devised an innovative new
financial instrument that converts a small investment in boats and
RPGs into T-35 tanks and now the Regulators from Big Government are
using Taxpayer Money to butt in. They're Socializing the Sea!
Government isn't the solution, it's the problem!

--Tom.

Yeah, but if they put their economy on the rocks will they ask for a
BAILOUT? (sorry)

On Sep 27, 3:54*pm, hpeer wrote:
wrote:
On Sep 26, 5:56 pm, hpeer wrote:
...............The Russian patrol ship Neustrashimy, which left
Wednesday for the coast off Somalia, may help crack down on pirates, a
source in the Russian Baltic Fleet headquarters told Interfax-AVN on Friday.
...

Trust those pinkos to interfere with the Free Market! *Freedom loving,
entrepreneurial Somalian fishermen have devised an innovative new
financial instrument that converts a small investment in boats and
RPGs into T-35 tanks and now the Regulators from Big Government are
using Taxpayer Money to butt in. *They're Socializing the Sea!
Government isn't the solution, it's the problem!

--Tom.

Yeah, but if they put their economy on the rocks will they ask for a
BAILOUT? *(sorry)

With those kinds of weapons, it will be more like a BLOWOUT.


Capt. Bill

On Sep 27, 12:54*pm, hpeer wrote:
wrote:
On Sep 26, 5:56 pm, hpeer wrote:
...............The Russian patrol ship Neustrashimy, which left
Wednesday for the coast off Somalia, may help crack down on pirates, a
source in the Russian Baltic Fleet headquarters told Interfax-AVN on Friday.
...

Trust those pinkos to interfere with the Free Market! *Freedom loving,
entrepreneurial Somalian fishermen have devised an innovative new
financial instrument that converts a small investment in boats and
RPGs into T-35 tanks and now the Regulators from Big Government are
using Taxpayer Money to butt in. *They're Socializing the Sea!
Government isn't the solution, it's the problem!

--Tom.

Yeah, but if they put their economy on the rocks will they ask for a
BAILOUT? *(sorry)

First they need to devise a method of selling off parts of the tanks
(actually T-72's I notice) since the international language is French,
let's call them tranches... Oh hell...

More OT, the article in the NY Times is interesting
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/27/wo...irates.html?em.

The report says the pirates are operating with virtual impunity from
mother ships hundreds of miles off the coast. That seems to pretty
much close the horn of Africa to cruisers. I guess Cape Town is going
to be a really popular place.

-- Tom.

On Sep 27, 2:17*pm, Gogarty wrote:
....
Did you notice that the pirates have a spokesman (who was not available for
comment.)

Yeah, I pictured an elegant, bespectacled man in a bespoke suit
reminding some loved ones that there are only so many appendages that
can be amputated from a soul before that person retreats to the
ultimate spiritual form.

I gather the asking tariff per is in six figures so just paying them
with your FastTrak as you go by isn't really an option.

--Tom.

us navy is shadowing the ship...ready to blow it
out of the water if the flakes even think about off loading
the freight....





On Sep 27, 7:30*pm, " wrote:
On Sep 27, 2:17*pm, Gogarty wrote:
...

Did you notice that the pirates have a spokesman (who was not available for
comment.)

Yeah, I pictured an elegant, bespectacled man in a bespoke suit
reminding some loved ones that there are only so many appendages that
can be amputated from a soul before that person retreats to the
ultimate spiritual form.

I gather the asking tariff per is in six figures so just paying them
with your FastTrak as you go by isn't really an option.

--Tom.

ready to meet your maker?

-------news snip---------------
Nikolsky said via a satellite phone that a Russian
sailor died Sunday due to hypertension. Other crew
members were fine though, he said adding that he
could see three ships about a mile away, including
one carrying an American flag.








On Sep 27, 8:33*pm, "~^ beancounter ~^" wrote:
us navy is shadowing the ship...ready to blow it
out of the water if the flakes even think about off loading
the freight....

On Sep 27, 7:30*pm, " wrote:



On Sep 27, 2:17*pm, Gogarty wrote:
...

Did you notice that the pirates have a spokesman (who was not available for
comment.)

Yeah, I pictured an elegant, bespectacled man in a bespoke suit
reminding some loved ones that there are only so many appendages that
can be amputated from a soul before that person retreats to the
ultimate spiritual form.

I gather the asking tariff per is in six figures so just paying them
with your FastTrak as you go by isn't really an option.

--Tom.- Hide quoted text -

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On Sep 28, 9:14 am, "~^ beancounter ~^" wrote:
ready to meet your maker?

-------news snip---------------
Nikolsky said via a satellite phone that a Russian
sailor died Sunday due to hypertension. Other crew
members were fine though, he said adding that he
could see three ships about a mile away, including
one carrying an American flag.

On Sep 27, 8:33 pm, "~^ beancounter ~^" wrote:

us navy is shadowing the ship...ready to blow it
out of the water if the flakes even think about off loading
the freight....

On Sep 27, 7:30 pm, " wrote:

On Sep 27, 2:17 pm, Gogarty wrote:
...

Did you notice that the pirates have a spokesman (who was not available for
comment.)

Yeah, I pictured an elegant, bespectacled man in a bespoke suit
reminding some loved ones that there are only so many appendages that
can be amputated from a soul before that person retreats to the
ultimate spiritual form.

I gather the asking tariff per is in six figures so just paying them
with your FastTrak as you go by isn't really an option.

--Tom.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

well if those fishermen have a brain among them those 72's will be
stripped of the targeting and guns strong mounts included and be
installed on the mother ships. depending on what kind of ammo they got
(and i assume that with the military response they got some good
stuff) those tin cans will stay well away.