Four Americans and two Somali pirates were killed

[Fred Vloo]

Four Americans and two Somali  pirates were killed Tuesday during an attempt to free the US hostages from  their yacht seized on the Indian Ocean, the US military said.

[Edward Ticu]

That is a sad news.

[Fred Vloo]

Sadly enough this shows how dangerous and tricky it is when the military try to free hostages.

[miraflores]

Open news from Tradewind

http://www.tradewinds.no/casualties/576788/pirates-kill-yacht-crew

[jimbo123]

It's way past time that the rogue state of Somalia was made to answer severely for the activities of their sea-going criminals.

[Kelvin Davies]

It's way past time that the rogue state of Somalia was made to answer severely for the activities of their sea-going criminals.

That could be a bit tricky as there is, to all intents and purposes, no such thing as the State of Somalia.
There has been virtually no effective government since the overthrow of Siad Barre in 1991.
Besides, hasn't this been tried before?
It seems to me the only effective way to overcome this problem is to deny the pirates access to the sea from their home ports (and that would take a huge amount of sea power) or to make all ships trade in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean in convoys.
While I have sympathy with the families of those killed, I have to wonder what they were thinking, sailing in that area?
Kelvin

[jimbo123]

There has been virtually no effective government since the overthrow of Siad Barre in 1991.
Besides, hasn't this been tried before?

If at first you don't succeed ...

I'd put it to the powers that be that bombing and shooting at Arabs in the desert has less payback than dealing with this pack of bastards at sea.