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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster

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To: Wayners who wrote (10818)	4/8/2009 11:21:11 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 103300

"why in the F%$# didn't/doesn't the U.S. Navy escort U.S. flagged vessels near Somalia?" We do / they did. (World protective naval forces are concentrated around the Gulf of Aden, in the gap between Somalia and Yemen. However this hijacking was OUTSIDE of that normal patrol zone. I hear the closest US ship was some 250 miles away at the time of the hijacking....) There are so many ships moving through that area that we normally patrol a zone --- and only escort individual vessels when they request it. Obviously this ship did not request an escort. (Personally... I like the "Liberty ship" idea... send a few armed vessels through the area disguised as harmless cargo ships, and blow the Hell out of some pirates. :-)

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