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By SusanUnPC on Apr 10, 2009 in "Blackhawk Down", Piracy, Somalia, Terrorism | 47 Comments

I hope you caught Larry Johnson’s must-read, “Piracy–Hollywood versus Reality (Updated),” as well as John Batchelor’s two fascinating reports today, “Pirate Hostage Killed” and “Pirates ‘Around the Clock’.” Here’s the latest — the Maersk Alabama is heading to port, enroute to Mombasa, Kenya. CNN’s Stan Grant reports: Embedded video from CNN Video [UPDATE: I found [...]

Pirates “Around the Clock” »

By John Batchelor on Apr 10, 2009 in "Blackhawk Down", Foreign Policy, Gen. David Petraeus, Pentagon, Piracy, President Barack Obama, Somalia, United Nations | 61 Comments

Blackhawk Down In Deep Water.   Suddenly the Obama administration has a foreign policy problem that does not permit simple blame-shifting to the previous presidency, and the problem has the face of the worthy Maersk Alabama’s Captain Richard Phillips.  Joe Biden knows this is alarming and ignored his smug aide to comment that DNI Blair [...]

Hillary On Pirate Hostage Crisis »

By SusanUnPC on Apr 9, 2009 in Piracy, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Somalia | 87 Comments

UPDATES: (SEE the latest Fox Video below on “Navy security team” aboard the U.S. vessel.) Also: Megyn Kelly calls Capt. Richard Phillips the “Sully of the Oceans.” (“Sully” is the pilot who landed a US Airways jetliner in the Hudson River without loss of life. Kelly co-anchors Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom.”) Today: “Pirates still hold [...]

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