Britain's senior Royal Navy commander in the Gulf has called for merchant shipping to hire mercenaries to fight off the increasing danger of piracy.
At a time when there is a record number of ships being hijacked off the coast of Somalia, Commodore Keith Winstanley said he believed that the situation has become so serious that civilian vessels should be armed.
He said that private security companies deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan could be better used guarding ships, which in pirate-infested regions need a "visual deterrent" such as mounted heavy machine guns.
"This coalition headquarters is advocating that as an option," he said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph.
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