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It is said to be opening anytime soon. A movie about missions of US Navy Seals acted out by real and active members of the unit. The bullets used are real and therefore, the sound, recoil and reactions of the actors in the film are as real as it can get. I watched the trailer from the creator's website and saw some real combat techniques for action fanatics like me, this is a good movie. I just hope that real missions conducted by the world's armed forces against criminalty would always be as flawless as the movie trailer and the recent rescue mission of two aid workers in Somalia.

I can’t help but mention it here. I wrote about Somali pirates who have been sowing terror in the seas by commandeering ocean vessels and holding it for ransom. The results are higher insurance premiums for shipping vessels, higher freight costs of international cargo and more importantly, dangers to seafarers. If this trend will continue, it won’t be long before lives are started to be ransomed as well. Old films about pirates attacking, plundering goods, raping and killing passengers and stealing ships will become a reality. Because of this, I’d like to spread the news about pirates being killed, arrested and slapped with heavy jail terms. Recently, a Spanish judge sentenced 2 Somali pirates to 439 years each for 36 counts of illegal detention. There must have been 36 crew members in the ship that they attacked. They were also ordered to pay 100,000 Euros to every person that they illegally detained. Goodie!

A few days ago, it was reported that a Filipino seafarer was killed by Somali pirates. Out of the probably thousands of Filipino sailors captured by these scums of the earth, the other week's death was probably less than the 10th killing. One or two days after such murder, pirates attacked an American yatch and held hostage 4 US citizens on board. A few days thereafter, the four were also killed. US special forces boarded the yacht and killed 2 pirates and captured 15 others. They also found 2 dead pirates which died prior to the assault. In a Somali forum, one poster wrote that one of the dead pirates succumbed to a knife wound. Good idea! I hope all pirates die by knife wounds. Bullets kill too easily. Those scums deserve a slower and more painful death.

Some people just can’t get contented to earning a decent income. The rich pays way above minimum wage for helpers who change their nice bathroom rugs . Well, some of those rugs are so beautiful and maybe very expensive anyway. It therefore makes sense to pay well for people who will take care of them. In Somalia, some people resort t piracy in order to make money. Why can’t they just apply to become some rich man’s rug maintenance man? The wage will undoubtedly be better than being a lowly pirate.

If you’ll wipe a cartridge full of xerox toner into your body, you can probably be mistaken for a pirate, the type that roams the seas off the Somalian coast. Those guys are still at it today and it just disappoints me that the sea is so vast that so many naval patrols have been unable to scare those people away. I hope that the different armies in the coast would have every square inch of that sea under surveillance 24/7.