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To: sandintoes who wrote (34976)	4/23/2009 1:13:57 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) of 71588

NATO forces let captured pirates go posted at 10:45 am on April 18, 2009 by Ed Morrissey First, the good news — NATO forces freed 20 hostages from the grips of pirates in the Gulf of Aden. Dutch commandos chased the pirates back to their mother ship, seized the ship, and liberated the hostages. Good for them; job well done. Until … Dutch commandos freed 20 Yemeni hostages on Saturday and briefly detained seven pirates who had forced their captives to sail a “mother ship” attacking vessels in the Gulf of Aden, NATO officials said. … The commandos briefly detained and questioned the seven gunmen, he told Reuters, but had no legal power to arrest them. “NATO does not have a detainment policy. The warship must follow its national law,” he said. “They can only arrest them if the pirates are from the Netherlands, the victims are from the Netherlands, or if they are in Netherlands waters.” That’s certainly a deterrent. Maybe they’ll wait until NATO comes back with a search warrant, or perhaps a social worker to see whether the pirates could use some public assistance, too. Sweden was tougher on The Pirate Bay this week than NATO was on actual pirates... hotair.com

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