Pirates !

[Brock]

Somali pirate's smile turns to tears; charged with crimes that could send him to jail for life

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2…kid_hearin.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brookl…_with_guns.html

Give merchant seamen fighting chance, with guns

This Brooklyn sea captain says the latest piracy incident was a call to arms.

Merchant Seaman Capt. Eric Swanson, a Windsor Terrace boy who graduated from Kings Point Merchant Marine Academy in 1992, says the boarding of the Maersk Alabama and hostage-taking of Capt. Richard Phillips is "the 9/11 of commercial shipping."

He does not compare this incident with Sept. 11 in scale or horror, but says it must signal a sea change in dealing with piracy.

"Just as 9/11 made us rethink the security of the nation, it is time to rethink the security of America's commercial vessels," Swanson says. "It's time for merchant seamen to be armed and trained to defend our vessels."

Swanson flew to Egypt yesterday to pilot a 980-ton container ship from Port Suez through the same treacherous waters where Navy SEALs rescued Phillips on Easter Sunday.

"I worked on a Maersk ship on that same run in 2001, running UN aid in and out of Africa," Swanson says. "We had taken grain from Texas to Mombasa, Kenya, and Djibouti. We had problems with pirates back then."

Swanson says the big pirate area was the Straits of Malacca when he started sailing. "The pirates would board ships at night, compromise the captain, and take his money. We had the same kind of measures we have now. American commercial ships have no weapons."

Why not?

"Ship owners look at it as a liability," he says. "They fear guns might escalate to the point where we will have trigger-happy merchant seamen who aren't really trained. But … we are naked out there. Helpless. We have no way of really defending ourselves."

Swanson says every commercial ship carries a Vessel Security Plan in the master's safe.

"Basically you lock down the whole house from the inside," he says. "You lock every access on board so that pirates can't get inside the house. Additionally we illuminate the ship with waterline security lights around the perimeter. We also rig four or five fire hoses with 120-150 PSI [pounds per square inch] of pressure on each side. We have lookouts with binoculars on the fantail and bow. That's basically it. Locks, lights, binoculars, and fire hoses."

At least Popeye had spinach.

Swanson, raised by a tough, savvy NYPD detective, also brings some Brooklyn street smarts to the oceans.

"We need guns," he says. "Five months ago in the Persian Gulf I had four pirate boats chasing me. All I could do was zigzag and send out messages to the military."

Shippers pay for private security in the Persian Gulf to prevent terrorist attacks, but, he says, armed and trained merchant seamen can defend themselves.

"For seven years I worked for the Military Sealift Command ships staffed entirely by merchant seamen, hired by the government to fuel and service Navy ships at sea," Swanson says. "There are armed military personnel on board in areas of known threat. The Navy mandates that those merchant seamen must be trained in small arms, and have them on board. It's time for the commercial shipping industry to bulk this up."

Swanson was glad the SEALs killed the pirates holding Phillips, but he worries that what was once piracy for profit could turn into terrorism for revenge.

"Ships passing through areas of known threat should have armed U.S. military personnel on board, like MSC ships," Swanson says. "At the very least, we should have five to eight merchant seamen on board trained in weapons like shotguns, 9-mm. pistols or M-14 rifles."

Aye, aye, Captain.

dhamill@nydailynews.com

An undated handout picture, distributed by the Belgian Government Crisis Center, shows the Belgian ship 'Pompei', towing a smaller boat, thought to be a pirate boat, heading towards the Somali coast. The Pompei was attacked by Somali pirates north of the Seychelles, in April 2008 as the ship was on its way from Dubai to Durban, South Africa. The ship is property of the Temporary Association Pompei, of two Belgian dredging companies

Jamaican soldiers stand on a ramp beside a CanJet aircraft in Montego Bay, Jamaica, in this frame grab taken on April 20, 2009. A would-be hijacker surrendered to authorities on Monday after agreeing to free the last of more than 180 hostages he seized hours earlier aboard the Canadian charter jet. (Reuters)

[h16]

Jabial avait proposé une idée, celle de "Glock Airlines" ou chaque passager devait monter armé.

[Brock]

et il faudrait verifier chaque balle pour etre sur que c'est du subsonique

plus serieusement, et comme pour les bateaux, l'equipage devrait etre arme, mais je ne suis pas pour les armes a feu a bord d'un avion, des armes non lethales pourraient suffire.

[Invité jabial]

ANL le jour à ça marchera. En attendant, équipage armé. Et puis c'est vrai que si tout le monde est armé ça rend le piratage difficile mais pas impossible : il suffit de remplir l'avion de suffisamment de terroristes pour que leur nombre soit supérieur à celui de ceux qui interviendront en toute probabilité. Ensuite, les terroristes passent confisquer les armes de tout le monde. Un complice peut même donner son arme pour "amorcer la pompe" psychologiquement, et 90% des gens suivront.

Le mieux reste l'interdiction des armes en cabine (avec controle), mais un équipage armé au moins à l'intérieur du poste de pilotage plus un ou deux gardes armés en civil dans la cabine passagers.

[h16]

ANL le jour à ça marchera.

wut ?

[A.B.]

Hum ce ne sont pas de simples armes a feu qu'il faut. Il faudrait des missiles a tete chercheuse. C'est cher mais il y a tres rarement besoin de les utiliser.

[Brock]

tu veux utiliser un missile dans un avion ?

[h16]

Je pense qu'AB parle des bateaux, là.

[Pan]

Hum ce ne sont pas de simples armes a feu qu'il faut. Il faudrait des missiles a tete chercheuse. C'est cher mais il y a tres rarement besoin de les utiliser.

Deux mitrailleuses lourdes et quelques armes de poing par bateau suffisent largement.

Il y a des langages universels. Quand l'eau fait "splouch-splouch-splouch" à côté de votre barque à moteur, vous comprenez tout de suite que ce n'est pas un message de bienvenue.

[A.B.]

Deux mitrailleuses lourdes et quelques armes de poing par bateau suffisent largement.

Il y a des langages universels. Quand l'eau fait "splouch-splouch-splouch" à côté de votre barque à moteur, vous comprenez tout de suite que ce n'est pas un message de bienvenue.

Il est vrai que…

[L'affreux]

Jabial avait proposé une idée, celle de "Glock Airlines" ou chaque passager devait monter armé.

Ah ben, c'est moi qui ne monte plus.

[Rincevent]

Il est vrai que…

Gaaaaaaatliiiiiiing…

[neuneu2k]

Gaaaaaaatliiiiiiing…

Bof le minigun c'est bien, ca fait des belles traçantes, mais c'est pas une arme individuelle (Le governator peut peut etre la porter tout seul, mais il ne peut pas tirer)

[Brock]

horriblement cher a operer, alimenter et entretenir, alors qu'une bonne vieille mitrailleuse de la seconde guerre mondiale peut tres bien faire l'affaire.

les bateaux ont deja des canons a eau mais apparemment ca ne suffit pas…

[A.B.]

horriblement cher a operer, alimenter et entretenir, alors qu'une bonne vieille mitrailleuse de la seconde guerre mondiale peut tres bien faire l'affaire.

les bateaux ont deja des canons a eau mais apparemment ca ne suffit pas…

Oui franchement c'est quoi ca… interville ?

Il faut des vrais canons. L'avantage d'un minigun c'est que c'est impressionant (et evidemment c'est monte sur le bateau avec un rail, pas porte a la main), ca fait beaucoup de bruit, ca fait peur.

[neuneu2k]

Il faut des vrais canons. L'avantage d'un minigun c'est que c'est impressionant (et evidemment c'est monte sur le bateau avec un rail, pas porte a la main), ca fait beaucoup de bruit, ca fait peur.

Ca en effet, l'effet psychologique du minigun est considérable, ca fait réfléchir (et pisser dans son short)

[Rincevent]

Ca en effet, l'effet psychologique du minigun est considérable, ca fait réfléchir (et pisser dans son short)

Considérable est le bon mot : c'est pour la même raison qu'il existe des lance-flammes. La meilleure bataille est toujours celle que l'ennemi a renoncé à livrer.

[José]

In Defense of Pirates (The Old Time Ones)

by Peter Leeson

All pirates are thugs, and the world would be better off without them. But not all pirates are equal. Unlike their Somali successors, early 18th century pirates, men like Blackbeard, "Black Bart" Roberts, and "Calico" Jack Rackam, weren't only thieves. They were also early experimenters with some of the modern world's most cherished values, such as liberty, democracy, and equality.

At a time when the legitimate world's favored system of government was unconstrained monarchy, early 18th-century pirates were practicing constitutional democracy. Before setting sail each would-be pirate crew drew up and agreed to a set of written rules that governed them. These rules regulated gambling, smoking, drinking, the adjudication of conflicts, and in some cases even prohibited harassing members of the fairer sex.

18th-century pirate constitutions established democratic governance for their roguish commonwealths. Crewmembers elected their captains by popular vote and democratically removed captains who dared to misuse their power. Because of this surprising system, far from tyrannical, the average 18th-century pirate captain was a dutiful, elected executor of his constituents' will.

Historical pirates understood what James Madison pointed out in the Federalist Papers—that the most important check on leaders' use of power is society's ability to select them. But they recognized this, and implemented it, more than half a century before Madison put pen to paper.

18th-century pirates also created an early system of social insurance and enshrined this in their law. Sea dogs injured on the job received workers' compensation from the crew's common purse—five pieces of eight for the loss of an arm, 10 pieces of eight for the loss of a leg, and so on. A maimed pirate didn't have to worry about a work-sustained injury leaving him without a bottle of rum to spit in.

Some historical pirates even embraced racial tolerance before their legitimate counterparts. England didn't abolish slavery until 1772. In the United States slavery persisted until 1865, and blacks didn't enjoy equal rights as citizens, politically or in the workplace, until even later than this. Some historical pirates, however, extended suffrage to their black crewmembers and subscribed to the practice of "equal pay for equal work," or rather, "equal pay for equal prey," in the early 1700s.

Like modern Somali pirates, historical Caribbean pirates were also violent thugs and deserve our condemnation. But historical pirates, at least, gave us something more than violent thuggishness, and perhaps even something to praise—an at least partial embrace of liberty, democracy, and equality in time when it was hard come by.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p…oryId=102961315

Want to Prevent Piracy? Privatize the Ocean

Peter T. Leeson

Following the freeing of American ship captain Richard Phillips from a band of Somali pirates Sunday, commentators have turned their attention to what can be done to control and prevent future piracy. The solutions suggested so far are what you might expect: Hit the Somali pirates at home with overwhelming force; reestablish “law and order” in Somalia so that pirates can’t flourish; and, closely-related, focus on state building in Somalia so citizens have lucrative employments other than piracy to turn to.

One suggestion that isn’t being considered, but should be, is to privatize the seas — especially those off Somalia’s coast. As the old adage (at least among economists) goes, “What nobody owns, nobody takes care of.” This is as true for oceans as it is for anything else. Piracy is just one manifestation of nobody taking care of what nobody owns when that “what” is the sea.

Governments exercise a kind of de facto ownership over the waters off their coasts; states have jurisdiction over, and thus control, what goes on in within so many miles of their shores. But there’s no government in Somalia to control what goes in Somalia’s would-be territorial waters. And in any event, pirates have taken to plying their trade 200-plus miles off the coast — watery territories nobody owns.

Predictably, the absence of ownership of these waters means no one has had much incentive to prevent activities that destroy their value — activities such as piracy. The result is a kind of oceanic “tragedy of the commons” whereby, since no one has an incentive to devote the resources required to prevent piracy, piracy flourishes. In contrast, if these waters were privately owned, the owner would have a strong incentive to maximize the waters’ value since he would profit by doing so. That would mean suppressing and preventing pirates.

Rather than trying its hand at Somali state building, the international community should try auctioning off Somali’s coastal waters. According to some Somali pirates, greedy foreign corporations are exploiting valuable resources in these waters, which is allegedly why they’ve resorted to piracy (the large ransoms earned from pirating are a happy but unexpected byproduct of pursuing social justice, I suppose). If this is right, Somalia’s coastal waters should be able to fetch a handsome price. The international community can use the proceeds of the auction for humanitarian assistance in Somalia, or put it in a trust for Somalia’s future government, if one ever emerges. The “high seas” should be similarly sold. It’s not so important where the proceeds go. The important thing is that the un-owned becomes owned.

Establishing private property rights where they don’t currently exist is the solution to about 90 percent of world’s economic problems. Piracy is no exception.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Y…ZTZlOWY5ZDgxMTg

Peter T. Leeson, professeur d'économie à l'Université George Mason, vient de publier The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates :

Il est aussi l'auteur de nombreux articles sur la Somalie, comme "Better Off Stateless: Somalia Before and After Government Collapse" (où il conclut que les Somaliens vivent légèrement mieux sans État qu'avec).

[Aurel]

Ils est con, il prendrait une carte CGT en disant qu'il veut terroriser les riches de ce monde, il serait traité en héros.

[Nick de Cusa]

Des passagers du bateau de croisière MS Melody auraient balourdé des chaises longues à la gueule des pirates qui tentaient de s'approcher. La sécurité du bateau a aussi usé de canons à eau et d'armes de poing.

Passagiere bewarfen Piraten mit Liegestühlen

Johannesburg (dpa) - Beim Piratenangriff auf das Kreuzfahrtschiff «MS Melody» haben sich auch einige Pasagiere tatkräftig gewehrt. Laut einer südafrikanischen Zeitung wurden die Seeräuber mit Liegestühlen beworfen. Die Besatzung und die Sicherheitsleute kämpften mit Wasserstrahlen und Pistolen. Die Passagiere wurden dann aber in die Kabinen zurückgeschickt. Außerdem wurden alle Lichter ausgemacht, um im Schutze der Dunkelheit zu entkommen. Das Schiff war am Samstag im Indischen Ozean von Piraten erfolglos angegriffen worden.

© sueddeutsche.de - erschienen am 28.04.2009 um 15:12 Uhr

http://newsticker.sueddeutsche.de/list/id/634894

Désolé, pas retrouvé cette info en anglais.

[Brock]

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/271557

An Italian cruise ship with 1,500 people onboard thwarted an attack by Somali pirates about 330 kilometres from Victoria in the Seychelles islands along Africa's East coast. Private Israeli guards fired back and the pirates fled.

The Melody is carrying nearly 1,000 passengers and almost half as many crew. The ship, owned by MSC Cruises, is on a 22-day journey from Durban in South Africa to Genoa. She had already rerouted to stay well away from the Somalian shoreline, but was still attacked.

Private Israeli security force

Self-styled "cruiseaholic' blogger John Honeywell writes on his personal blog that 'six shots were exchanged and six men in a small white boat attempted to board the ship, but were repulsed by a private Israeli security force hired by the ship's Italian owners. None of the passengers or crew was injured.

Commander Ciro Pinto told Italian state radio the pirates fired with automatic weapons, slightly damaging the liner, and tried to put a ladder on board. In the close encounter skirmish, the Israeli security men fired back with pistols.

"It felt like we were in a war," said Pinto.

Cruise line security work is a popular job for young Israelis who have recently been discharged from army service, as it is a good chance to save money and travel.

The Spanish warship SPS Marques de Ensenada from the international protection fleet is meeting up with the liner to escort her through the pirate-infested northern Gulf of Aden, the Maritime Security Center said.

Pirates have attacked more than 100 ships off the Somali coast over the last year, reaping an estimated $1 million in ransom for each successful hijacking, according to analysts and country experts.

see

She was built in 1982 by the CNIM shipyard in La Seyne, France for Home Lines as MS Atlantic. Between 1988 and 1997 she sailed for Premier Cruise Line as MS StarShip Atlantic.

In 1997 she entered service for MSC Cruises as MS Melody and was renamed MSC Melody in 2004.She can accommodate 1,076 passengers in 532 cabins. Her crew complement is approximately 535.

c'est fascinant comme c'est benin quand les pirates sont repousses, et comme ca devient enorme, catastrophique et couteux quand ils prennent le controle du navire.

[h16]

c'est fascinant comme c'est benin quand les pirates sont repousses, et comme ca devient enorme, catastrophique et couteux quand ils prennent le controle du navire.

Comme pour toute agression, en somme.

[Rincevent]

Private Israeli guards fired back and the pirates fled.

Réputation défendue. Résultat obtenu.

[Nick de Cusa]

Ca laisse entier le mystère des chaises longues.

[Punu]

Ce qui m'étonne, c'est qu'il soit apparemment interdit de posséder des armes sur des navires. Il me semble qu'autrefois, le capitaine pouvait tout à fait armer son bateau, d'autant plus s'il naviguait dans les eaux internationales. Quelqu'un s'y connaît un peu en droit maritime ?

[Pan]

horriblement cher a operer, alimenter et entretenir, alors qu'une bonne vieille mitrailleuse de la seconde guerre mondiale peut tres bien faire l'affaire.

les bateaux ont deja des canons a eau mais apparemment ca ne suffit pas…

Voilà. Il y a des technologie qui ont atteint voici 60 ans une sorte de perfection. Dans le genre, on ne fait pas mieux. Une à l'avant, une à l'arrière, et la vie est belle.

Il n'y aurait même pas de violence puisque l'immense majorité des gens s'arrêtent quand l'eau gicle sous les balles 30 mètres devant eux.

[José]

You Are Being Lied to About Pirates

Who imagined that in 2009, the world's governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates? As you read this, the British Royal Navy - backed by the ships of more than two dozen nations, from the US to China - is sailing into Somalian waters to take on men we still picture as parrot-on-the-shoulder pantomime villains. They will soon be fighting Somalian ships and even chasing the pirates onto land, into one of the most broken countries on earth. But behind the arrr-me-hearties oddness of this tale, there is an untold scandal. The people our governments are labeling as "one of the great menace of our times" have an extraordinary story to tell -- and some justice on their side.

Pirates have never been quite who we think they are. In the "golden age of piracy" - from 1650 to 1730 - the idea of the pirate as the senseless, savage thief that lingers today was created by the British government in a great propaganda-heave. Many ordinary people believed it was false: pirates were often rescued from the gallows by supportive crowds. Why? What did they see that we can't? In his book Villains of All nations, the historian Marcus Rediker pores through the evidence to find out. If you became a merchant or navy sailor then - plucked from the docks of London's East End, young and hungry - you ended up in a floating wooden Hell. You worked all hours on a cramped, half-starved ship, and if you slacked off for a second, the all-powerful captain would whip you with the Cat O' Nine Tails. If you slacked consistently, you could be thrown overboard. And at the end of months or years of this, you were often cheated of your wages.

Pirates were the first people to rebel against this world. They mutinied against their tyrannical captains - and created a different way of working on the seas. Once they had a ship, the pirates elected their captains, and made all their decisions collectively. They shared their bounty out in what Rediker calls "one of the most egalitarian plans for the disposition of resources to be found anywhere in the eighteenth century." They even took in escaped African slaves and lived with them as equals. The pirates showed "quite clearly - and subversively - that ships did not have to be run in the brutal and oppressive ways of the merchant service and the Royal navy." This is why they were popular, despite being unproductive thieves.

The words of one pirate from that lost age - a young British man called William Scott - should echo into this new age of piracy. Just before he was hanged in Charleston, South Carolina, he said: "What I did was to keep me from perishing. I was forced to go a-pirating to live." In 1991, the government of Somalia - in the Horn of Africa - collapsed. Its nine million people have been teetering on starvation ever since - and many of the ugliest forces in the Western world have seen this as a great opportunity to steal the country's food supply and dump our nuclear waste in their seas.

Yes: nuclear waste. As soon as the government was gone, mysterious European ships started appearing off the coast of Somalia, dumping vast barrels into the ocean. The coastal population began to sicken. At first they suffered strange rashes, nausea and malformed babies. Then, after the 2005 tsunami, hundreds of the dumped and leaking barrels washed up on shore. People began to suffer from radiation sickness, and more than 300 died. Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the UN envoy to Somalia, tells me: "Somebody is dumping nuclear material here. There is also lead, and heavy metals such as cadmium and mercury - you name it." Much of it can be traced back to European hospitals and factories, who seem to be passing it on to the Italian mafia to "dispose" of cheaply. When I asked Ould-Abdallah what European governments were doing about it, he said with a sigh: "Nothing. There has been no clean-up, no compensation, and no prevention."

At the same time, other European ships have been looting Somalia's seas of their greatest resource: seafood. We have destroyed our own fish-stocks by over-exploitation - and now we have moved on to theirs. More than $300m worth of tuna, shrimp, lobster and other sea-life is being stolen every year by vast trawlers illegally sailing into Somalia's unprotected seas. The local fishermen have suddenly lost their livelihoods, and they are starving. Mohammed Hussein, a fisherman in the town of Marka 100km south of Mogadishu, told Reuters: "If nothing is done, there soon won't be much fish left in our coastal waters."

This is the context in which the men we are calling "pirates" have emerged. Everyone agrees they were ordinary Somalian fishermen who at first took speedboats to try to dissuade the dumpers and trawlers, or at least wage a 'tax' on them. They call themselves the Volunteer Coastguard of Somalia - and it's not hard to see why. In a surreal telephone interview, one of the pirate leaders, Sugule Ali, said their motive was "to stop illegal fishing and dumping in our waters… We don't consider ourselves sea bandits. We consider sea bandits [to be] those who illegally fish and dump in our seas and dump waste in our seas and carry weapons in our seas." William Scott would understand those words.

No, this doesn't make hostage-taking justifiable, and yes, some are clearly just gangsters - especially those who have held up World Food Programme supplies. But the "pirates" have the overwhelming support of the local population for a reason. The independent Somalian news-site WardherNews conducted the best research we have into what ordinary Somalis are thinking - and it found 70 percent "strongly supported the piracy as a form of national defence of the country's territorial waters." During the revolutionary war in America, George Washington and America's founding fathers paid pirates to protect America's territorial waters, because they had no navy or coastguard of their own. Most Americans supported them. Is this so different?

Did we expect starving Somalians to stand passively on their beaches, paddling in our nuclear waste, and watch us snatch their fish to eat in restaurants in London and Paris and Rome? We didn't act on those crimes - but when some of the fishermen responded by disrupting the transit-corridor for 20 percent of the world's oil supply, we begin to shriek about "evil." If we really want to deal with piracy, we need to stop its root cause - our crimes - before we send in the gun-boats to root out Somalia's criminals.

The story of the 2009 war on piracy was best summarised by another pirate, who lived and died in the fourth century BC. He was captured and brought to Alexander the Great, who demanded to know "what he meant by keeping possession of the sea." The pirate smiled, and responded: "What you mean by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, while you, who do it with a great fleet, are called emperor." Once again, our great imperial fleets sail in today - but who is the robber?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/…o_b_155147.html

Et si l'on regarde d'un autre point de vue, on peut parfaitement voir ces "pirates" somaliens comme des collecteurs d'impôts qui imposent simplement une taxe de passage, un péage à ceux qui traversent leur territoire pour commercer. Le tribut atteindrait entre 20 à 40 millions de dollars sous forme de rançons - c'est-à-dire peanuts par rapport à la valeur du volume du commerce qui transite dans la région et par rapport aux taxes de tous genres que les compagnies maritimes doivent payer à une foultitude d'États. Il s'agit, en fait, de somme si faibles que les compagnies maritimes ne cherchent même pas de routes alternatives et qu'il est moins cher pour elles de payer la rançon que de d'armer leurs navires ou de payer la protection d'une compagnie de sécurité.

Lire : "Iklé on Pirates", "Pirates in Somalia: Abduction, Negotiations", "Hostage takers could face charges in U.S. courts".

[Punu]

Comme d'habitude, la France vient rétablir le social-étatisme :

Madrid et Paris pour une conférence internationale sur la Somalie

LE MONDE | 29.04.09 | 15h55 • Mis à jour le 29.04.09 | 15h55

'Espagne et la France vont proposer la tenue d'une conférence internationale sur la Somalie. L'annonce en a été faite, mardi 28 avril, par le chef du gouvernement espagnol, José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, à l'issue d'une séance de travail avec le président français Nicolas Sarkozy dans le cadre d'un sommet bilatéral. L'objectif est d'"apporter une réponse large, pas seulement de sécurité face à la piraterie, mais une réponse globale, politique, pour l'avenir de ce pays", a précisé M. Zapatero. Les deux dirigeants n'ont pas donné de détails sur la forme que pourrait prendre cette initiative. La France et l'Espagne ont été à l'origine de l'opération aéronavale européenne Atalante, lancée en décembre 2008, contre les actes de piraterie au large des côtes somaliennes, dans le golfe d'Aden et l'océan Indien.

Bref, les Somaliens vont bientôt devoir voter pour élire leurs maîtres. Et bien évidemment, si c'est un parti musulman qui l'emporte, on ira faire la guerre là-bas six mois plus tard.

[Luis]

Tout ça me donne envie de me mettre au dernier tome de One Piece !

[Brock]

ca commence a cogner…

Somali men suspected of piracy, at left, are escorted by Kenyan police officers as they arrive at a court in Mombasa, Kenya, Thursday, April 23, 2009

Eleven Somali men suspected of piracy stand in the dock as charges against them are read out, in a court in Mombasa, Kenya, Thursday, April 23, 2009. The 11 men made their first court appearance Thursday after being captured and handed over by French commandos. Kenya is prosecuting the suspected pirates under a deal with the European Union.

This undated handout photo released by South Korea\'s military on May 4, 2009 shows South Korean soldiers aboard a helicopter aiming a sniper rifle at a pirate boat after repelling its attack on a North Korean ship in waters off Somalia. A South Korean naval helicopter fended off pirates trying to attack a North Korean ship off Somalia early Monday, military officials in Seoul said.

This undated handout photo released by South Korea\'s military on May 4, 2009 shows South Korean soldiers aboard a helicopter aiming a machine gun at a pirate boat after repelling its attack on a North Korean ship in waters off Somalia. A South Korean naval helicopter fended off pirates trying to attack a North Korean ship off Somalia early Monday, military officials in Seoul said

This undated handout photo released by South Korea\'s military on May 4, 2009 shows shows a pirate boat after it gave up its attempt to seize a North Korean ship in waters off Somalia. A South Korean naval helicopter fended off pirates trying to attack a North Korean ship off Somalia early Monday, military officials in Seoul said.

This undated handout photo released by South Korea\'s military on May 4, 2009 shows North Korean crew waving from the ship \"Dabaksol\" to a South Korean helicopter in waters off Somalia. A South Korean naval helicopter fended off pirates trying to attack a North Korean ship off Somalia early Monday, military officials in Seoul said

In this Tuesday, April 28, 2009 photo, Russian marines put handcuffs on a suspected pirate aboard the Russian warship Admiral Panteleyev off the coast of Somalia. A Russian destroyer has seized a vessel with suspected pirates on board off the coast of Somalia, Russian news agencies reported Wednesday, citing the Defense Ministry. The warship Admiral Panteleyev captured the suspected pirate vessel on Tuesday and its crew confiscated automatic rifles, pistols and ammunition found on board