"How Do You Prosecute a Pirate?
Written by: Michael Scott Moore, December 16, 2009, 02:00 AM (PST) 1 Comments
Like dogs chasing cars, Western powers cruising for Somali pirates are a little stumped about what to do when they're captured.
Three international naval groups are cruising for pirates off Somalia. But no one is sure how to detain them.
The most eyebrow-raising aspect of Western counter-piracy missions off Somalia is how rarely they arrest a pirate. Last September, I spent a few days on a Turkish frigate called the Gediz, one of NATO's busier ships in the Gulf of Aden, and the captain admitted that even when they catch pirates, they almost never make an arrest."
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