ROME – An Italian cruise ship with 1,500 people on board fended off a pirate attack far off the coast of Somalia when its Israeli private security forces exchanged fire with the bandits.
Six men in a small, white Zodiac-type boat approached the Msc Melody at about 1730 GMT Saturday and opened fire with automatic weapons, Msc Cruises director Domenico Pellegrino said. They retreated after the security officers returned fire and sprayed them with water hoses. The ship continued its journey with its windows darkened.
"It felt like we were in war," the ships commander, Ciro Pinto, told Italian state radio.
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Pellegrino said all Msc cruise ships around the world are staffed with Israeli security agents because they are the best trained.
You don't mess with the Israeli security forces. Them guys are bad ass.
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You don't mess with the Israeli security forces. Them guys are bad ass.
I am highly disappointed in this outcome. Now if they had sunk that boat or killed at least half of the pirates, then I would call it a victory. This was just a stalemate. Good job does go to the forces though.
Where is our giant space-laser??? If we had one of those, it would be over!!
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I just don't understand why that wouldn't be an easy task...
Some random unexpected pirate sinkings would stop this nonsense.
It'd be more interesting if the US Navy (or other navy's) could train its dolphins to provide escort duties for the ships, or on patrols in the region, capsize some of those boats and watch the pirates helpless as they try to swim to safety. all while the dolphins "play" with them in the water (swat them with their tails, bump them at high speed with nose, swim under them pick them up & flick them to another, etc LOL)... especially if those are shark infested waters
or even just as creative, work with navy seals launched from a sub below surface, mount some explosive charges on their noses to be attached to the pirates boats, then have the dolphins provide a distraction aways from the baddies (far enough away not to be affected by the compression waves in the water), then after a few moments BOOM, pirate boats go up in fireball, or big hole in hull, sinking into water VERY fast.
or even something like this:
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Where is our giant space-laser??? If we had one of those, it would be over!!
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Be that as it may, a giant space laser would be cooler - surely you wouldn't argue THAT!!
They should be hunted down and blown out of the water, and/or trailed back to land bases and obliterated.
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And why just blow them out of the water if we can space laser them out of the water?
Now that could be some real shock and awe huh? Oh! Especially if we denied doing it and claimed it was Jesus!
though I agree the "Giant Laser" would be cool, minus the horny midget of course
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I think it's pretty screwed up that we hire private security companies, like Blackwater, to fight in Iraq and use the armed forces to protect private ships.
We should use our armed forces in wars and let the private shipping companies hire private security.
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Right now they are testing different weapons that are used for riot control in Iraq by using sound. When this has been fully tested, it will be pretty simple to install these on a ship and use them as needed.
hardware
prices 
Oh! Especially if we denied doing it and claimed it was Jesus!
