The Price Of Obama’s Inaction
Saturday, April 11th, 2009We now know the price to be paid for President Obama’s inaction with the Somali pirates. We know because they’ve hijacked another boat, this time capturing another 16 hostages:
Pirates captured a U.S.-owned and Italian-flagged tugboat with 16 crew including 10 Italians on Saturday in the latest hijacking in the busy Gulf of Aden.
“We can confirm that 10 Italians were kidnapped but we have no further details,” an Italian foreign ministry official said.
Andrew Mwangura, of the Mombasa-based East African Seafarers’ Assistance Programme, said the crew were believed to be unharmed on the tugboat, which he added was operated from the United Arab Emirates. He said the tugboat was towing two barges at the time of capture but there were no details on their cargo. “This incident shows the pirates are becoming more daring and violent,” Mwangura told Reuters by phone.
Why shouldn’t they be daring? It’s not like President Carter Obama will do anything to strike fear in their hearts. (more…)
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