The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The U.S. Marines boarded a ship of German registry in the Gulf of Aden on Thursday and took back control from the nine Somali pirates who had previously seized it.
According to the NY Times, the pirates are behind held aboard a U.S. Navy vessel even though:
While hundreds of Somali pirates have recently been sent to jail in Kenya, the Seychelles or Somalia … many more have been set free by Western navies in a controversial "catch and release" approach because of the complications of prosecuting suspects arrested on the high seas.
I am all for that "catch and release" business. Any pirate captured should be released immediately, directly into the Gulf of Aden.
Most of these attacks occur about 300 miles from shore. If a pirate can swim that far he would be, literally, home free.
Rich Galen
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