Pirates

[Tobra]

I know there is a pirate thread already, but I could not mange to get through all 5 pages of the crap that was there

Obligatory link, WTF does "Chemical" mean when it is used generically for a tanker?
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/11/28/somalia.pirates.chemical.tanker/index.html

Do you suppose these pirates have any friends in Mumbai formerly Bombay.

Bombay is probably the anglicized version of that I would wager...I digress.

Something to think about, how connected are the groups doing these things around the world. How often is it at the Mosque, would make it easy, especially in the US, with how we are about religion here.

Code word SALADIN!

Sounds like a Robert Ludlum book, or mayber the next James Bond movie

[varmint]

they've probably never met. but they share an ideology.


in 1785, john adams wrote to the sultan of tripoli. hoping to negotiate the end to attacks on american shipping. abd al-rahman replied...


"it was written in the koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their (muslim) authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon whoever they could find and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every mussulman who would be slain in battle was sure to go to paradise."

the sultan added, that if he were to stop his attacks on western shipping, what would he do with all his pirates?