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Saudi Tanker the size of three aircraft carriers reported hijacked 500 miles off the Somali coast. Crew totaled 25 and were carrying over 100 million dollars worth of crude. The big question was how the pirates traveled the distance without massive refueling support. They use a mother ship and launch smaller vessels from there. Weapons onboard to repel serve no purpose. Simply pull aside, avoid the wake, use a bullhorn or radio and simply say, "we are starving and desparate Somali's who care not if we die here today; however, if you do not yield to our demands then we will blow up your ship and kill all aboard". Okay.................!!!

So much for a 9mm or a M-16 onboard. One RPG through the hull and you almost create a nuclear winter! The reports today on Somali pirates is alarming. Whole fishing villages have turned to the pirate trade. Now, if you are not a pirate you have no prestige in the village. Children emulate all pirates and aspire to becoming one. Somali's are so dirt poor, what do they have to loose? I have to wonder if they any romance in it. Somali Barbarossa fighting Captain Jacque over the fair beautiful virgin maiden?

I could only hope one of these guys rattles a sword, wears a bandana, has a long beard and comes aboard looking like Blackbeard! Saudi's will pay the ransom, the Somali's will piss the money away in bigger boats, bigger guns, rum and woman. Somewhere in the forthcoming years, watch for a movie. Who will play Somali the pirate?