Houston, We Have A Problem

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Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has posted an article about NATO freeing 20 hostages from pirates in the Gulf of Yemen and capturing seven pirates in the process.  This happened today according to the source article at Yahoo News.  Sounds good, right?  Well, not so fast.  The article points out:

"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."

NATO has no authority to arrest the pirates.  OK, where do the pirates get the authority to be pirates?  It seems to me that if there is no question that the men are pirates--see mother ship, hostages, etc.--anyone who happens to have them on the wrong end of a gun should be able to at least bring them to a place where they can be arrested.  This is totally insane.  Why is it not international law for anyone to capture pirates?  Where's a good bounty hunter when you need him? 

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