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People December 17 hearing only” corpuscles, “a few days of the 16 Somali pirates shot again, successfully hijack a French oil company tugboat and a cargo company in Turkey. Before this, the international community has repeatedly declared that it would “take all necessary measures” to resolve the Somali piracy problem, so the above actions against ships very “pirate naval demonstrations to national” flavor.

relevant United Nations agency said the coast of Somalia is currently in the insufficient number of warships patrolling the country, and the need to set up a special police force to maintain the maritime route in this safe navigation. This year, the coast of Somalia pirates precepts in more than 40 countries in cargo ships, more than 3000 km long coast line of Somalia has become a national shipowners ‘Anxious’ Pirates Paradise. ”

It is reported that the hijacked French tug is en route from Yemen to Malaysia was hijacked by pirates. It was bad luck Turkish cargo ship is 100 meters long section of large container ships. Currently, pirates in the hands of a total of 16 carriers, including Saudi Arabia ship “Sirius” and a Ukrainian cargo ship with tanks. About 250 crew members held hostage by pirates.

United Nations recommendations on the attachment in the national warship “International Maritime Police,” and the host country by these police captured pirates to trial, and cut off the pirate capital chain channel. It is reported that Somalia’s neighbors, such as Djibouti, Kenya, Tanzania, Yemen, particularly the police should be sent to participate in joint action to combat piracy. Earlier, the UN has the means with a similar hit in the Caribbean region’s drug gangs come and go.

present in southern Somalia in neighboring Kenya also strengthened offshore alert. Harassed by pirates, Kenya’s maritime business is adversely affected, the cost of greatly increased. Kenya also called on countries to adopt the so-called “Malacca mode” in combating piracy and destroy Somali pirates landing land lair. The United Nations also urged not to pay ransom, or can stimulate the appetite of the pirates.

Although the United Nations authorized the United States brought the parties’ use all means to fight Somali pirates “, but the Pentagon has said that the UN should be the first to mobilize all forces to restore order in Somalia, and must authorize the capture and trial of foreign troops pirates power, or even catch the pirates can not handle, landing in Somalia is “stir up a hornets’ nest move.”

parties estimated that Somalia’s pirates are more than 1,500 large and small, with fishing as their cover, taking advantage of the past, when the vessel is not high vigilance, rushed to the crew uniforms, the fully loaded cargo ocean-going cargo ship towed back to the nest for a huge ransom.

long period of anarchy in Somalia, a variety of weapons scattered people, even to the “staff shot” with it, in this case, the foreign troops who are difficult to distinguish between pirates and which were civilians , which are extremists. Once the due victimizes innocent sensational, “accusation”, I am afraid that chaos can not clean up tens of thousands of coalition countries.

for U.S. troops, the Somali is a “sad place.” 10 years ago, the U.S. special forces fight insurgents in Mogadishu, with, in front of local people are not afraid of death, the U.S. suffered a major loss results. Then U.S. President Bill Clinton soon ordered the withdrawal of all depressed from the local U.S. combat troops, the U.S. military in recent years become a rare retreat experience.

However, with the Somali pirates, including the “base” organizations, including various hormone-free between extremists and basically do not attack the U.S. carriers, but not swagger around in the U.S. fleet, the pirates did not threatening to U.S. interests. U.S. military will have a reason to open and aboveboard, open eyes one, closed one, temporarily ignore these lawless guy.

U.S. national intelligence agencies want to closely control the pirates at the exact movements and then start cleaning up. The coast of Somalia after the U.S. military even suggested that shipping companies hire a professional with light weapons as a deterrent to piracy security. In fact, countries including the U.S. Navy, including the modernization of the fleet in front of the pirate, at most, serve as a deterrent, they do not expose the identity of ships will not take the initiative.

Somali President Yusuf, 16, Mohamed Mahmoud Gulai De appointed the new prime minister, replacing the previous dismissal of Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein. Somali presidential spokesman Hussein Mohamed Mahmoud in a telephone interview with reporters, said Yusuf had the day of the southern town of Baidoa in a press conference to announce the appointment of Gu Laide. Yusuf said Gu Laide will soon form the cabinet and drew the transitional parliament.

15 as the transitional parliament voted to support Hussein and his cabinet, this nomination is not clear whether Yusuf passed by Parliament. Yusuf, 14, to work on grounds of incompetent and corrupt prime minister Hussein lifted. Hussein later said the president had no right to his removal. 15 transitional parliament voted by an overwhelming majority of results support the Prime Minister Hussein and his cabinet remain in office. Yusuf said the vote violated the law.

recent months, Yusuf and Hussein in the Somali peace process and the candidates for cabinet ministers on a range of issues of serious conflict. Yusuf against Hussein at the United Nations and the Somali opposition groups under the mediation of power-sharing agreement signed at the same time, Hussein refused to approve the nomination of many ministers. It is because of the internal Somali factions everywhere, unable to reach agreement on important issues, to the pirates to provide a survival of the “soil.” (H Yi Jun)

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