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Somali pirates captured four ships and took more than 60 crew members hostage in a brazen hijacking spree, while the American captain freed from their grip planned to reunite with his crew and fly home Wednesday to the United States.
your "hmmmm"... is that because the Pirates are picking up steam because within a 2 day period, the US and France fought back or was it just a "hmmm" you couldn't formulate the reason for the hijacking?
The best part of all this is that not one American flagged ship was included in those attacked. Also, I didn't see anything there about French flagged ships.
That just as the events in Mogadishu stirred up a hornets nest in 1993 so could this,especially since there have been calls for going ashore.
Pirate hijackings have been happening in the area for years....seems few cared before.
Of course this might a nice little PR piece for some....
I am wondering if some of our folks even know about 1993 or know that part of American foreign policy since 1801 and Thomas Jefferson is the right of American merchant ships on the high seas. You may be talking right over their heads.
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