- Pirates: More Boring History - Wolfeboro Community Forums

http://www.marinebuzz.com/2008/11/20/somali-pirates-have-lavish-life-style-or-rot-in-jail/

QUOTE:
"Piracy in Somalia is in many ways socially acceptable.

"Most of the Somali pirates are young, between 20 and 35 years of age.

"On an average Somali pirates collect a ransom of $2 million for each captured vessel.

"Somali pirates have money; they have power; and they are getting stronger day by day.

"Somali women say “Marrying a pirate is every Somali girl’s dream. He has power, money, immunity, the weapons to defend the tribe and funds to give to the militias in civil war.”

"Somali pirates wed the most beautiful girls; they are building big houses; they have new cars; new guns..."

Somali pirates add a percentage (was it 1%?) to the price of oil that we have to pay for.

Pirates' small boats are supported by "mother ships" many miles out to sea. The latest hijacking took place 450 miles at sea!

1) Since this was posted, another three ships—including a Saudi oil tanker—have been hijacked for ransom. Around 2 million dollars (and increasing) are demanded for the safe return of those ships and crews.

Only India has stepped in to stop Somali pirates with military force!

Many states (most in the American South) have towns named for the U. S. Navy hero of America's first encounters with Islamic pirates.

Here is what the U.S. did when last faced by Islamist piracy:
http://bvml.org/webmaster/terrorism/index.html

2) Some "Legal-Immigrant" Somalians have disappeared from the US to resume lives in Somalia; perhaps it is to join in jihad or piracy?

3) (Canada, too).

http://hogtownfront.blogspot.com/2006/10/somali-canadians-fighting-for-taliban.html

4) I don't know why our Navy ships in the area don't send up Predator UAVs and blast each pirate boat out of the water—starting with the pirates' "mother supply ships" hundreds of miles offshore of Somalia.