Dutch commandos capture Somali pirates and let them go.....
Great work in freeing hostages...but letting the pirates go???
Dutch forces have freed 20 hostages whose vessel was hijacked by Somali pirates and used to launch an attack against a tanker in the Gulf of Aden.
The commandos briefly detained and questioned seven gunmen, but were forced to let them go because had no legal power to arrest them under Dutch law.
Nato Lieutenant Commander Alexandre Fernandes said: 'We have freed the hostages, we have freed the dhow and we have seized the weapons.'
He explained the pirates were set free because under Dutch law they could not be held at sea under the circumstances in which they were captured.
Speaking from on board a Portuguese warship further north in the Gulf of Aden, Fernandes said: 'They can only arrest them if the pirates are from the Netherlands, the victims are from the Netherlands, or if they are in Netherlands waters.'
posted by GayandRight @ 11:21 AM
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OT, but I found out about your blog via the article on John Greyson's boycott.
I support Israel as well. But if you support Israel over Palestine because Israel supports gay rights and Palestine doesn't, why do you support the conservatives and not the liberals, when it's the liberals who are fighting for gay rights and the conservatives who oppose it?
horrible ! our rights are being used against us !!
BTW, some hope is raising from this group who got it right, and are planning to strike on Human dignity lines.. rather then on appeasing islam..
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=36479828753#/group.php?gid=169843290601&ref=share
Isn't there some sort of international piracy law that the Dutch could have used?
I personally think it might be to our advantage to pay a ransom for one of these boats. If you know what bills you are sending in, you can track if any of that leaves the country and in what locations it congregates. Follow the money trail, eliminate the top management, stop the arms trade and just maybe the U.N. can try again in the war torn nation.
Letting them go is at least a better outcome than arresting them and bringing them to New York City for trial. A thousand pirates could be arrested and brought to the civilized world for trial and it wouldn't make a difference. Pirates must be killed and their vessels sunk. Destroy their harbours after that and the conditions that enabled piracy in the first place will be eradicated until it has to be done again.
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