Russian navy captures Somali pirates.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  April 28th at 10:10 PM  | 

The more, the merrier. Russia captures Somalia pirates A Russian warship has seized a pirate vessel with 29 people on board off the Somali coast, Russian news reports say. Guns and navigation equipment were found during a search of the pirate boat, officials were quoted as saying. Notably absent from this account – or this one, or this one – is any indication that the | Read More »

Japanese to take more aggressive anti-piratical stance?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  April 23rd at 09:38 AM  | 

Step by step – sometimes almost painfully so – the Japanese are getting themselves back into the game: Japan’s MPs back anti-piracy bill The lower house of Japan’s parliament has approved a bill to allow the country’s naval ships to take a bigger role in fighting pirates off Somalia. The bill will mean the navy can escort non-Japanese ships and use weapons for more than | Read More »

Somali Pirates up the ante.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  April 14th at 07:30 PM  | 

As you probably noticed, I’ve been polite in reacting to the administration’s handling of the first wave of Somali piracy. This has been mostly out of pragmatism: like Jonah Goldberg and Ed Morrissey, my interest is in seeing dead or stopped pirates, and my generally low opinion of Democratic Presidents aside when it comes to setting foreign policy, this is actually one time when Obama’s | Read More »