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Default A problem with deep-sixing pirates....

On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:32:04 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:27:29 -0800,
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:07:08 -0500,
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On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:27:14 -0500, Wayne.B
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It doesn't make any sense. We know the DOD monitors every inch of the
gulf, they surely must know which mother ship a skiff came from. As to
the "world courts", if you vaporize the mother ship and skiffs, there
will be nothing left for court

Didn't it happen in the Indian Ocean, thousands of square miles?
That's my understanding. There are hundreds if not thousands of
fishing boats out there, all looking a lot alike.

I think we have theater surveillance capability sufficient to plot and
track a lot of vessels. Once the operators get a feel for watching
them I bet they can profile out the mother ships pretty quick and
spend most of the effort watching them.

It certainly can't be much harder than tracking terrorists in the
wilds of Pakistan. These ships can't really hide in a cave and come
out somewhere else.


I agree, but I think Wayne has a good point.. in the scheme of things,
it seems pretty low priority. Not saying it shouldn't be done, but
these people clearly knew the risks. I believe they were warned more
than once.


It will be a low priority until they take a super tanker. Best case is
it is just a huge ransom, worst case, an Exxon Valdez sized (or
greater) oil spill somewhere they decide would cause the most trouble.


Until? That ship, umm... has sailed. I believe it was $100M ransom.


 
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