Pirates Again?

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Yahoo News is reporting that a Greek cruise ship fended off an attack by pirates in the Gulf of Aden with water hoses and the help of some EU aircraft scrambled from a nearby group of EU ships.  Pirates in three speedboats armed with guns and rocket-propelled grenades twice tried to board the Greek-flagged Kriti Episkopi.  I guess the thing that bothers me about this is that the pirates sailed off into the sunset.  In another case, a French warship on Thursday captured a boat with eight Somali pirates as they were preparing to board a Panamanian ship.  This was revealed in a statement released late Thursday by the office of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.  The crew of the "PM L'Her" dispatch boat seized weapons and munitions on board. The French navy will hand over the men to Somali authorities. 

I'm really not sure handing the pirates over to the Somali authorities is the answer.  I think that the way to end piracy in this area is to make it unprofitable and dangerous for the pirates, rather than for ships in the area.  I really don't like to idea of arming cruise ships with rocket propelled grenades, but at least we need to give them armed escorts in dangerous areas.  I don't think water hoses would have worked for very long without the arrival of air and sea support.

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