TWO PIRACIES IN SOMALIA: WHY THE WORLD IGNORES THE OTHER?
By Mohamed Abshir Waldo
Jan. 08, 2009

<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=pKmWzpTu8N4C&amp...Plundered Waters

The Agence France-Presse is the only wire service that asked a the imminent question. It reports:

The Fifth Fleet said that the US ships are the only ones taking part in the new task force, however other nations were expected to announce their participation soon.

So the U.S. announces a new coalition of the willing under its command, but has yet to find any one willing to be commanded.

During the rule of the Islamic Courts Union in 2006 there was no piracy by Somali pirates off the Somali coast, documented in a paper from Chatham House.

Two comments from the article, for some background:

#2 – the u.s. has always been behind the scenes all along

they drafted the u.n. resolutions providing for international actions in somali waters. they've been providing intel. they've been encouraging the thousand ship navy to come together – background:

In the fall of 2005, Admiral Michael G. Mullen, the U.S. Navy's Chief of Naval Operations, challenged the world's maritime nations to raise what he called a "thousand-ship navy" to provide for the security of the maritime domain in the twenty-first century. Speaking at the Seventeenth International Seapower Symposium at the Naval War College, in Newport, Rhode Island, Admiral Mullen candidly admitted to the assembled chiefs of navy and their representatives from seventy-five countries that "the United States Navy cannot, by itself, preserve the freedom and security of the entire maritime domain. It must count on assistance from like-minded nations interested in using the sea for lawful purposes and precluding its use for others that threaten national, regional, or global security."

that means china, which gets 30 or 35% of its oil from the continent of africa, not to mention all the other commodities/raw materials

hell, they instigated the destabilization of somalia, making conditions for the proliferation of piracy possible

#13 – the outrage is definitely manipulated to the point that the real criminals are usually portrayed as the victims. don't be surprised it's a story we've covered in depth over the past two years across multiple threads.

two helpful references …

<a href="http://www.wardheernews.com/Articles_09/Jan/Waldo...TWO PIRACIES IN SOMALIA: WHY THE WORLD IGNORES THE OTHER?

The other more damaging economically, environmentally and security-wise is the massive illegal foreign fishing piracy that have been poaching and destroying the Somali marine resources for the last 18 years following the collapse of the Somali regime in 1991. With its usual double standards when such matters concern Africa, the “international community” comes out in force to condemn and declare war against the Somali fishermen pirates while discreetly protecting the numerous Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing fleets there from Europe, Arabia and the Far East. …
<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=pKmWzpTu8N4C&amp...waters: somalia's maritime resource insecurity
… Aspects of Somalia's maritime insecurity will then be explored as a prelude to an assessment of the environmental, economic, and security threat posed by IUU fishing in Somali waters. Finally, the Somali case will be set in its wider Indian Ocean context.

… the u.s. has been anything but "totally absent" in the efforts to police the waters off the HOA