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Blackwater, other security firms join Somali piracy fight

World Oct. 27, 2008 - 05:48AM JST ( 7 )

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CavemanLawyerOct. 27, 2008 - 10:23AM JST

**“No client’s ship has been approached by pirates while we’ve been on them,” he said. **

Both of them!

High-tech but non-lethal weapons include dazzle guns, which produce disorienting flashes; microwave guns, which heat up the skin causing discomfort but no long-term damage; and acoustic devices that can blast a wave of painful sound across hundreds of yards.

I wants me a dazzle gun! --Cirroc
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AltriaOct. 27, 2008 - 02:14PM JST

Thugs vs. Thugs!
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skipthesongOct. 27, 2008 - 06:16PM JST

You have to be one low class low end making fool to join a company to get a job that is barely above a bouncer position and go and fight a bunch of people with real guns....
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gonemadOct. 27, 2008 - 07:26PM JST

in the short term, it's attractive to use mercenaries instead of regular armed forces because governments don't have to throw in any money of their own. In the long term, this laissez-faire policy will backfire. Mercenaries have no interest to stop the conflicts and as soon as they grow beyond a certain scale, they will start to be the problem itself. It seems to be wishful thinking that people will ever learn from history...
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Good_JorbOct. 27, 2008 - 10:59PM JST

Privateers fighting pirates, avast ye matey! Either the world has not progressed that far or it is regressing but aleast the hasn't been a comment about returning to the good old of piracy.
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frontandcentreOct. 28, 2008 - 12:03PM JST

Apparently the sonic weapons are really effective. The pirates have got too greedy and now they'll find that they have gone too far. If they get too desperate for business and attack an armed vessel, they will be destroyed. Fools
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unscrejectsOct. 29, 2008 - 08:11PM JST

These guys are D-E-A-D. The Somalis are the mother of all clan based societies. These guys switch loyalties at the drop of a button! Must be the Iraqi heat getting to their heads...