The Security Council calls upon states interested in the security of maritime activities to take part actively in the fight against piracy on the high seas off the coast of Somalia ,in accordance with international law, as reflected in the Convention.(2).

http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2008/sc9467.doc.htm

So, what is an international law?

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Piracy on the high seas, especially off the coast of Somalia, has become a scourge threatening human lives and liberty, goods in transit, ships and international trade. The action that any Government’s forces can take is limited by political and diplomatic niceties. Surely it is time to take a lesson from history and allow private enterprise to finance a solution as happened in the Caribbean and elsewhere with the use of privateers?
I think piracy has to be eradicated where their bases are – on land, not at sea. Somalia e.g. is a failed and corrupt state which is unable to stop anything – just the place for a bit of free enterprise, like piracy, and anti-piracy too.

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MOGADISHU, Somalia – A U.S. destroyer off the coast of Somalia closed in Saturday on a hijacked Ukrainian ship loaded with tanks and ammunition, watching it to ensure the pirates who seized it do not try to remove any cargo or crew.
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In Somalia, a man claiming to be spokesman of the pirates holding the Ukrainian ship said the hijackers want million to release the vessel.
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Pirate attacks worldwide have surged this year and Africa remains the world’s top piracy hotspot, with 24 reported attacks in Somalia and 18 in Nigeria this year, according to the International Maritime Bureau’s piracy reporting center.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080927/ap_on_re_af/af_somalia_piracy;_ylt=AoyNmRix2a0gyvyuhL8VWU.s0NUE

Arrrggh!!!

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It seems like a very lucrative occupation and nice work if you can get it, filling a speedboat with some armed and desperate teenagers and taking over giant oil tankers for ransom. But rather than travel to coast of Somalia, what’s the upsides and downsides of just doing it off Los Angeles? Just wondering.

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