{"id":734,"date":"2009-04-16T20:44:56","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T20:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=734"},"modified":"2009-04-16T20:44:56","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T20:44:56","slug":"the_french_are_going_after_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=734","title":{"rendered":"The French Are Going After The Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/8000447.stm\">BBC<\/a>&nbsp;is reporting that the French warship Nivose has captured 11 pirates off the coast of Kenya.&nbsp; According to the article:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It had detected a &#8220;mother ship&#8221;, or command vessel, on Tuesday, and observed it overnight before launching an assault early on Wednesday, the ministry said.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the past few days, four ships have been seized by the pirates and other ships have been attacked.&nbsp; The pirates have sworn revenge on France and the United&nbsp;States because of the killing of pirates in recent rescue operations carried out by those two countries.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>According to the article:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;In recent months Britain, the US, and the European Union have signed memorandums of understanding with Nairobi that Kenya will act as a kind of international tribunal for pirate crimes. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Several Somali pirates turned over by the US and Germany are already undergoing legal action there but, so far, Paris prefers to try captured pirates in French courts.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the French for taking the lead in dealing with a truly international problem.<em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC&nbsp;is reporting that the French warship Nivose has captured 11 pirates off the coast of Kenya.&nbsp; According to the article: &#8220;It had detected a &#8220;mother ship&#8221;, or command vessel, on Tuesday, and observed it overnight before launching an assault &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=734\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}