{"id":19175,"date":"2010-05-19T09:22:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T14:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19175"},"modified":"2010-05-19T09:22:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T14:22:29","slug":"wow-what-a-shocker-somalia-criticizes-u-s-for-pirate-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19175","title":{"rendered":"Wow! What a Shocker: Somalia Criticizes U.S. For Pirate Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

The BBC reports that some cryptic ass hat<\/span>government official has criticized the US for tying Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse, the lone surviving Somali pirate from last year’s hijacking of the Maersk Alabama 280 miles from the Somali coast.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mr Cumar told the BBC’s Network Africa he had been trying to work out why the US would have any authority to try Muse’s case and those of several other suspects in custody in the US.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Um…dunno, maybe it had something to with the Alabama being a US flagged vessel with an American crew, or that they were apprehended by Americans?<\/p>\n

“The Somali government’s position has always been that we questioned the jurisdiction of this case,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Right, so the government of Somalia should have the jurisdiction and they would hold a fair trial and then execute<\/span> sentence those convicted. Sounds fair to me\u00a0right?<\/p>\n

Somali pirate suspects have been tried in various countries across the world, as Somalia has no functioning central government<\/strong>. (emphasis added)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To be fair this Cumar fella does have a solution:<\/p>\n

Mr Cumar says he wants a UN-backed international tribunal to deal with piracy cases.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This could work.\u00a0 What countries would be on the Tribunal? Maybe Rwanda, Somalia and Haiti?\u00a0 They all have experience dealing with this kind of thing?\u00a0 Or maybe the French the Swiss and the Venezuelans?\u00a0 Wait there is one problem:<\/p>\n

Previous attempts to form an international tribunal have failed because of a lack of funding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Okay.\u00a0 Well, it’s a good solution, but no one wants to pay for it.\u00a0 There is another solution:<\/p>\n

Foreign forces have frequently caught pirates off Somalia, disarmed them and then put them back to sea because there is no local authority to deal with them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Catch and Release.\u00a0 How’s that working for us?\u00a0 Since Somali piracy is on the rise, not so well.\u00a0 So here’s my idea.\u00a0 If the dysfunctional government of Somalia has a problem with us capturing and trying their problem children here after they attack our ships, then our new policy should be to sink the boats, torpedo the mother ships and declare armed pirates hostile.\u00a0 Then there’s no one to try and no one to attack the ships.\u00a0 Problem solved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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