Somali Pirates Hijack Oil Tanker Going to US

[13Gigatons]

Somali pirates seized a tanker carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia to the United States in the increasingly dangers waters off East Africa, an official said Monday, an attack that could pose a huge environmental or security threat to the region.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=9203841


damn pirates...argh

 

[guyver01]

We need to do the world a favor and just nuke the shit out of somalia.

 

[IronWing]

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=9203841


damn pirates...argh

Why is this pirate wearing mascara?

 

[Spineshank]

We need to do the world a favor and just nuke the shit out of somalia AND the middle east.

fixed.

 

[IronWing]

Maybe the Greeks will take action on their own behalf, you know, to protect their own stuff.


Just kidding, send in the US Navy.

 

[Freshgeardude]

they didnt mention the value of the oil aboard the ship.

wonder how much the price of oil will go up in the US now because of this ship

 

[Modular]

These pirates are still at it eh? I wonder when they'll learn their lesson...

 

[IronWing]

These pirates are still at it eh? I wonder when they'll learn their lesson...

When it stops paying better than eating dirt. They really don't have much to lose. Yeah they can get killed, but they live in Somalia, they can get killed just by living.

 

[dfuze]

These pirates are quite bold, especially considering how navies have stepped in of late. I wonder how much more often this goes on and doesn't get reported.

 

[Acanthus]

It's all fun and games until you start fucking with americas oil supply.

This is the 2nd tanker they've got a hold of.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

It's not like America has gone to war before over oil...

 

[LTC8K6]

They keep getting paid, so why would they quit? They have suffered little consequence.

The British have been releasing them when they catch them, and they often get the ransom they demand.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...mali-pirates-even-when-caught-in-the-act.html

 

[dfuze]

I guess it's like any other business, risk vs reward. Sadly the rewards for it are outpacing the risk.

 

[Parasitic]

Time to store some declassified information on US ships going through the region so if they get hijacked by Somali pirates we have an excuse for them taking sensitive information and retaliating.

 

[0roo0roo]

all that gas and you can't afford a military contractor to guard the ship, i'm sure they make scanners that would detect something making a beeline towards you.

 

[Leros]

Yoho!

 

[JTsyo]

I think it's time for CONVOY!!

It's not like you need a fleet to protect them, anything with a gun would do.

 

[Leros]

Aren't there issues about commercial vessels not being allowed to arm themselves because they would become military vessels?

 

[clamum]

they didnt mention the value of the oil aboard the ship.

wonder how much the price of oil will go up in the US now because of this ship

Naw, I haven't seen an estimate of the value of the oil. They did say though that the tanker has a dead weight of 300,000 tons.

Apparently the tanker that got sized last November had a dead weight of 318,000 tons and there were two million barrels of oil on that one.

 

[techs]

The real pirates are from Saudi Arabia. They wear those those funny white robes and call themselves our friends.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

queue snipers in three....two...o

 

[TallBill]

Naw, I haven't seen an estimate of the value of the oil. They did say though that the tanker has a dead weight of 300,000 tons.

Apparently the tanker that got sized last November had a dead weight of 318,000 tons and there were two million barrels of oil on that one.

That's fucking huge.

 

[eits]

/facepalm

not this again...

 

[destrekor]

It's all fun and games until you start fucking with americas oil supply.

This is the 2nd tanker they've got a hold of.

It's not like America has gone to war before over oil...

War over resources is the most fundamentally basic version of war mankind has ever known. Everyone makes all these comments that war over oil is terrible and linking Middle East wars with a U.S. being a bully and a glutton. Uh... and the other option is what? Peace? Humans will likely never understand or practice such crazy ideas. The more one welcomes the present issues, the better they can be understood, and the better they can be avoided or dealt with with minimal violence. But as long as there is one group, there is always an opposing group. It's how we humans operate, it's the way our brains are chemically controlled.

Playing with the control of resources creates a lot of tension. It's what helped force Japan's hand into being the military aggressor in WW2 by attacking the U.S., when it was the U.S. that used resource control and trade tariffs/bans that led to Japan reaching a point where aggressive action was getting to the point of necessary.
It was the control of resources on various islands that played a important, but historically barely discussed, role in shaping Japan's moves in the game of war.

Dreaming of a world where we stop fighting over resources, in the game to determine who has the bigger guns or the more massive balls, is just that - dreaming. Sure, it might be nice to think it will happen, but honestly, all the motions that try and make it a bigger issue to try and make it reality sometime in the near future, is just futile and wasted action, slowing down the real progress of getting to avoiding devastation and making aggressive actions have a more minimal impact, with minimal investment. Aggression and war is not going to die out, and as the world population continues to grow, war over resources is going to be the most common type of war, territorial disputes are going to be reserved for the more primitive locales while the big boys, the more developed countries, shift entirely to resource disputes. Territory disputes amongst the developed countries will be entirely based around resources in said territory.

Note: Look to the disputes over the North Pole and the Northern Passage already becoming a talking point - it'll be a hot issue as the ice continues to shrink. Of which it will - because humans are beyond retarded and can't get shit right the fight time around, we have to fail before we learn. In essence, we have to crawl before we can walk, and fall a few times while learning to walk.

 

[OutHouse]

all that gas and you can't afford a military contractor to guard the ship, i'm sure they make scanners that would detect something making a beeline towards you.

its a little more complicated than that. im still curious how the Alabama had a armed security force.