Air Canada,...pirates is because they happen to hail from the same clan as them.
Thuma walaahi wa bilaahi wa talaahi there is no other reason. The very same ones who invited our greatest enemy into the country and gave away the land are telling us they care about the sea.
If you gave away Somalia for free and invited your habash boyfriend yesterday what reason is there for me and the many other patriotic Somalis to believe that your intentions are holly and you care about our waters? None, motherfucker...None!
So you mean to tell us everything that want wrong in Somalia are caused by reer Puntland? How old are you again? Mogadishu is the most dangerous city in the world and who made it so is quite obvious. It has a population of 2 million, and at least a million of them are armed, upon coming to power Abdullahi Yusuf was fully aware of this and so did the rest of the world. Was the act of bringing international troops to pacify Mogadishu his alone? That decision was presented and contained in an agreement signed by all the political factions in the country as denominated by clans or warlords thereof. As to who signed the Maritime Boundary agreement between Somalia and Kenya I think its best we don't accuse others since we both know who he was.
Now for the issue of piracy, I understand your a man on mission (what that mission is only god knows so I won't waste too much time on it, but it obvious to everyone I assume), I would advise though, it is best you comprehend the issue at hand with respect to the underlying cause of piracy. As you read this, the US Navy - backed by the ships of more than two dozen nations, from the EU to China - is sailing into Somali waters to take on these men:
These hungry nomads who can't even replace this rusty AK47:
In the words of one pirate from ages ago - a young man in a cruel world - should echo into this new age of piracy. Just before he was hanged, he said: "What I did was to keep me from perishing. I was forced to go a-pirating to live." In 1991, the government of Somalia - in the Horn of Africa - collapsed. Its nine million people have been teetering on starvation ever since - and many of the ugliest forces in the Western world have seen this as a great opportunity to steal the country's food supply and dump nuclear waste in our seas.
Yes: nuclear waste. As soon as the government was gone, mysterious European ships started appearing off the coast of Somalia, dumping vast barrels into the ocean. The coastal population began to sicken. At first they suffered strange rashes, nausea and malformed babies. Then, after the 2005 tsunami, hundreds of the dumped and leaking barrels washed up on shore. People began to suffer from radiation sickness, and more than 300 died. As Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the UN envoy to Somalia said, "Somebody is dumping nuclear material here. There is also lead, and heavy metals such as cadmium and mercury - you name it." Much of it can be traced back to European hospitals and factories, who seem to be passing it on to the Italian mafia to "dispose" of cheaply. When Ould-Abdallah was asked what European governments were doing about it, he said with a sigh: "Nothing. There has been no clean-up, no compensation, and no prevention."
At the same time, other European ships have been looting Somalia's seas of their greatest resource: seafood. These European ships have destroyed their own fish-stocks by over-exploitation - and now they have moved on to Somalia's. More than $300m worth of tuna, shrimp, lobster and other sea-life is being stolen every year by vast trawlers illegally sailing into Somalia's unprotected seas. The local fishermen have suddenly lost their livelihoods, and they are starving. Mohammed Hussein, a fisherman in the town of Marka 100km south of Mogadishu, told Reuters: "If nothing is done, there soon won't be much fish left in our coastal waters."
This is the context in which the men we are calling "pirates" have emerged. Everyone agrees they were ordinary Somali fishermen who at first took speedboats to try to dissuade the dumpers and trawlers, or at least wage a 'tax' on them. They call themselves the Volunteer Coastguard of Somalia - and it's not hard to see why. In a surreal telephone interview, one of the pirate leaders, Sugule Ali, said their motive was "to stop illegal fishing and dumping in our waters... We don't consider ourselves sea bandits. We consider sea bandits [to be] those who illegally fish and dump in our seas and dump waste in our seas and carry weapons in our seas."
No, this doesn't make hostage-taking justifiable, and yes, some are clearly just gangsters - especially those who have held up World Food Programme supplies. But the "pirates" have the overwhelming support of the local population for a reason. The independent Somali news-site WardherNews conducted the best research we have into what ordinary Somalis are thinking - and it found 70 percent "strongly supported the piracy as a form of national defence of the country's territorial waters." During the revolutionary war in America, George Washington and America's founding fathers paid pirates to protect America's territorial waters, because they had no navy or coastguard of their own. Most Americans supported them. Is this so different?
Did we expect starving Somalis to stand passively on their beaches, paddling in Western nuclear waste, and watch illegal fishers snatch their fish to eat in restaurants in Washington and in London and and in Paris? The West didn't act on those crimes - but when some of the fishermen responded by disrupting the transit-corridor for 20 percent of the world's oil supply, the West begin to shriek about "evil." If West really want to deal with piracy, the West needs to stop its root cause - illegal fishing and dumping crimes - before the West send in the gun-boats to root out Somalia's criminals.
