Canada releases pirates, no laws broken
 

WTF BBQ. appeartly being a pirate isn't against Canadian law. who wants to start up on the west coast??? :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

why TF are we even there if we can't do anything.


Nato foils Somali pirates' attack


Pirates have intensified attacks on shipping in recent weeks
An attempted attack by Somali pirates on a Norwegian tanker was foiled by Nato warships and helicopters after an overnight pursuit in the Gulf of Aden.
Nato said a Canadian warship caught the pirates before releasing them after the gang attacked the MV Front Ardenne.
The alliance said the pirates had been released because they could not be prosecuted under Canadian law.
On Saturday, Dutch commandos serving with the Nato anti-piracy operation freed 20 pirate captives from Yemen.
In that incident, too, the raiders were released.

American forces joined in Sunday's pursuit of pirates who used rocket-propelled grenades in an attack on the 80,000-tonne MV Front Ardenne.
Portuguese Lt Cdr Alexandre Santos Fernandes told AP news agency the raiders only stopped after repeated warning shots were fired.
He said the gang was interrogated and disarmed before being released.
A spokesman aboard the Canadian warship, the Winnipeg, Michael McWhinnie, said they had switched off all lights to hunt the fleeing pirates through the night.
"We blocked their path. We were faster and surprisingly more manoeuvrable than the pirate skiff," Mr McWhinnie told Reuters news agency.
Pirates have intensified attacks on shipping in recent weeks in one of the world's busiest sea lanes, despite patrols by the foreign navies.
In another incident on Saturday, Somali pirates seized a Belgian ship and its 10 crew, including seven Europeans.
Nato's success this weekend is the latest in a string of recent Western military operations against the pirates.
French and US troops have both taken action against pirates in recent days.
The French rescued three people from a captured yacht in an assault which saw one man killed.
Last week US troops killed three pirates and captured another as they rescued the American captain of a tanker from captivity.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently unveiled a plan to tackle piracy in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean off Somalia.

GO CANUCKS GO

Chuck Norris is face palming right now

I heard somewhere that these pirates are hired for jacking the prices of fuel up. Equaling more profit for the government.

This.

BOOM BOOM PoW!

they don't need oil, the pirates are racking in 100's of millions of dollars of Ransom. they have seized like 500 ships in the past 2 years, and got paid to release them by the ship's companys.

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Canucks FTW!

what happened to the gold old days where we would walk them off a plank?

why capture then? just shoot them and sink their boats

Wow. There's no way our PM can spin this to make it look good. What's the point of further efforts to apprehend them if only to let them go?

Maybe they released them off a plank into the sea full of sharks?

This situation reminds me of those people who complain that police aren't doing their jobs in catching criminals. Sure, the bad guys are caught, but then they get to walk away when the law is unable to press charges!

no worries, they'r gonna release them & then "accidentally" shoot a big hole in their ship

Waste of tax payers money =P

Whats the point of doing this?? "They will be back out tommorrow"...=P

http://simpsons.ugo.com/images/obscu...ea-captain.jpg
ARRRRRR! SHIVER ME TIMBERS!!!!

At first I thought this is about Piratebay.org lol

Should release the pirates to US Navy.

I think they caught and released some more today... might have been the same story though, but I don't think so.

waste of time and tax payer money. sink the dam boats

Because the crew was on a NATO mission and not working under the European Union, the Dutch crew lacked the jurisdiction to hold the pirates, according to reports.

"If the Dutch navy had been operating under the EU, they could have turned over the pirates for trial. NATO has not provided that authority,"

From http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/...tes/index.html

Probably the same reason the Canadian Navy released them.

maybe they should recall the navy and send out a fisheries and oceans ship instead because apparently canada is following a 'catch and release' fishing program for pirates :o

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Oddly enough, our territorial waters don't extend to Somalia. If you were to start a pirate crew here, you'd be effed.