Thursday, January 01, 2009

Bad times ahead for Somali pirates

The next year will be a bad one for the Somali pirates, as on December 16, the UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution giving special forces of its member countries the right to track and detain pirates on the sea and on land.

This surgical operation will not cleanse the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean of the pirates overnight, but it is a good start.

Experts have been saying that you can successfully fight pirates only on land, with victory on the sea as an additional bonus.

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