Give pirates money..Follow them home…Open a recruitment station by their houses ..Hire locals to protect ships with their own ships?!.If they refuse ...Well ...Then add more security or use force if necessary!!.Wasn’t this the basis of the Iraqi and afgani war with Taliban?...Take it to their homes, not ours ?////Is this fair??

If the area is not safe ..Change the route ...Use advanced radar or other advanced technology to scan for miles around!..Should be able to see pirates comin for miles before they arrive!...

Who is responsible for the tankers?...

Who owns the waterway?...

If there is no government in the area .Hire these villagers as security to ensure safe passage!...Invest in the area so these people can reap some of the rewards from such a large environmental risk!.
Maybe people who live along these oil hiways ,should recieve an enviromental risk pay, for any hazard that passes their shores..Little price to pay for the enormous risk to their environment!!...I don’t think it is in the “Hijackers” best interest to “blow up” or pollute their shore with oil!...

  Follow them home ...if these pirates or governments refuse to work toward a solution…Well ..then again maybe force is necessary!!...There are hundreds of ways to deal with this issue!!..Peacefully!.

Changing international water way laws is not an option…

I fear this issue has the potential to be abused to change laws that will spill over to other jurisdictions like Alaskian/Canadian/Russian water ways!!..

This problem should be dealt with locally with no international manipulation!...There are many solutions..It’s the risk of doing business!...And again we must keep in mind..There is an over supply of oil kickin around because of a criminally over inflated oil markets !

..What is in the interest of these oil and grain companies?...

What do these companies and those involved stand to gain or loose in this situation.When all is said and done??.

..I would argue..Oil companies never loose…They will be fine!!

Who’s land borders these water ways??,

,Should they not be responsible for their own area??

..Perhaps the oil companies can be some assistance to the local government to ensure safe passage!

I hope this isn’t just another game being played to change international water laws to futher beneift oil companies..They get enough breaks !!

To Arius:

All those Western ships in the area are there for one thing only, to guard oil tankers, I should know, I’m Saudi and am aware of the silly excuses the government there gives for the presence of all those Western/U.S. naval ships, the same excuses that have been given since the 80’s, to guard shipments of oil.

Well, here’s one ship that wasn’t guarded by the Western protectors.

I think it’s a good thing that this was stolen; it just shows how stupid importing pollution is; we need to switch to Solartopia now, and let those poor Somalian’s keep the hijacked oil, perhaps it will keep them from starving to death due to US imperial subterfuge.

Well if you call “bullshit” then you are ignorant on the topic.  Ship hijackings have been going on for years and getting more blatant in recent years.  The area for these tankers is huge.  Our ships, any military ships cannot be every where at once in order to protect them. 

This was one of the more unusual cases because of the tanker being taken by such a small group- as a commentator put it on tv this morn, “it is like someone on a bicycle hijackng a skyscraper”.

I think all these ships, tanker or not, need to beef up their security with cams all around that can alert them inside, if anything is approaching from 10 miles out (or so)..  That would deal with the surprise factor and give them time to seek help.

I call bulls**t.

This entire area is swarming with U.S. and
other Western naval ships, all to protect
exactly such oil tankers.