Wednesday, 19 November 2008

Pieces of Eight

So there's piracy on the high seas, the Pirates of the Carribean are indeed alive, well and living in Somalia. Having read the news this week I did wonder how pirates had managed to board a supertanker, three times the size of an American Aircraft Carrier, and then I saw a picture in the press of a small speedboat full of pirates packing Rocket Launchers, and began to understand ...
 
What's to be done about this? perhaps Her Maj's Navy should take a leaf out of the Indian Navy's book who decided to play a real life game of Battleships by blowing a few out of the water today.
 
Captain Pugwash had better look out, India it seems is almost as Angry as Britain.

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