The United Nations has granted authority for foreign ships to enter Somalian waters in order to fight piracy and armed robbery.
All 15 members of the UN Security Council on Monday voted in favour of the resolution, aimed at fighting nautical attacks and hijackings along the East African country's 3,000-kilometre coastline.
Somalia's transitional president, Abdullahi Yusuf, told the council "the issue of piracy is beyond our present means and capabilities.
"Hence, we would like to request the Security Council to urgently adopt the draft resolution on piracy off the coast of Somalia," he said.
There have been more than a dozen pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia this year.
According to the resolution, ships of foreign nations that co-operate with Somalia's government during the next six months can "enter the territorial waters of Somalia for the purpose of repressing acts of piracy and armed robbery at sea."
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Just recommission a destroyer in one of the Navy shipyards and have it sit out 10 km the pirates.
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DPDarkPrimus wrote:Just recommission a destroyer in one of the Navy shipyards and have it sit out 10 km the pirates.
Screw that, recommission the New Jersey or Wisconsin and sit that baby 10km off the coast.
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Sounds like a job for the PRFYTFCP! We'll sail the Seven Seas of awesome right over to the somali's and give the pirates hell. Too bad Voluntaryist still isn't around to see his Utopian society crumble.
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While this is spiffy, why does the international community care about Somalia's territorial waters in the first place, given its complete lack of internal control? Or, to sum up...what were the assorted naval nations waiting for? It's certainly not that they're nervous of Somalia's well-organized, competent military taking exception to having their job done for them.
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White Haven wrote:While this is spiffy, why does the international community care about Somalia's territorial waters in the first place, given its complete lack of internal control? Or, to sum up...what were the assorted naval nations waiting for? It's certainly not that they're nervous of Somalia's well-organized, competent military taking exception to having their job done for them.
As Teebs said its about precedent. Somalia is acknowledged as a sovereign nation and violating their territorial waters with armed ships is basically casus belli. Other nations don't want to set the precedent that it is okay to do so and the person whose waters you violate won't fight back.
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We have enough people here for a crew, let's get the Navy guys to train us, get us a letter of marque, and become SDN Privateers!
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This is a navy's meat and potatoes. Clearing the high seas of the scum of the earth has a long and honourable tradition.
And imagine the spectacle of a pirate trawler getting shot to pieces by an Arleigh Burke or a Perry.
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DPDarkPrimus wrote:Just recommission a destroyer in one of the Navy shipyards and have it sit out 10 km the pirates.
Screw that, recommission the New Jersey or Wisconsin and sit that baby 10km off the coast.
Screw New Jersey. Wisconsin kicks her ass up and down the coast
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NomAnor15 wrote:Screw New Jersey. Wisconsin kicks her ass up and down the coast
Sod that, I still wish we had HMS Warspite for sheer character shield value and sheer badass factor.
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NomAnor15 wrote:Screw New Jersey. Wisconsin kicks her ass up and down the coast
On, Wisconsin! On, Wisconsin!
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"The 4th Earl of Hereford led the fight on the bridge, but he and his men were caught in the arrow fire. Then one of de Harclay's pikemen, concealed beneath the bridge, thrust upwards between the planks and skewered the Earl of Hereford through the anus, twisting the head of the iron pike into his intestines. His dying screams turned the advance into a panic."'
NomAnor15 wrote:Screw New Jersey. Wisconsin kicks her ass up and down the coast
Sod that, I still wish we had HMS Warspite for sheer character shield value and sheer badass factor.
For this job, you need the West Virginia, aka the Silent Mountaineer (ok, so she's an Ohio-class. We got over it.)
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Bah, no one is going to send a BB, too expensive for this..however any anti-pirate campaign must have is a sufficiently powerful ship called 'Dauntless'
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Kodiak wrote:Sounds like a job for the PRFYTFCP! We'll sail the Seven Seas of awesome right over to the somali's and give the pirates hell.
It's EIGHT SEAS OF AWESOME, not seven, but EIGHT!
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