(Indian Ocean) Last year, Somali pirates boarded a yacht and kidnapped a British couple. The thing is, they did so in front of a Royal Navy ship which had on board a squad of SBS soldiers trained and ready to go. However, rules must be obeyed, and before the SBS could be sent in they had to ring their political masters in London asking permission to take the fight to the pirates. The message they got back was not to do anything which might offend the pirates, and so 5 months later, Paul and Rachel Chandler are still being held prisoner by a bunch of Allah's finest.

Contrast that call to lay down arms by British socialism's finest in which not to offend terrorists, sorry, militants and the tiny little Island state of the Seychelles. It transpires that over the weekend, a bunch of pirates kidnapped six Seychelles fishermen and transported them to an Iranian dhow which they had hijacked and which contained an extra 21 (Iranian) hostages. Instead of turning the other cheek. The Seychelles government sent in a coastguard vessel which sailed up to the dhow and pumped 10,000 rounds of 12.7mm into the engine room. It seems the pirates, instead of dying for Allah, decided to jump ship, and thus all the hostages were rescued.

The irony of how the Royal Navy has been shown what to do by tiny little Seychelles (population 48,000) which doesn't even have a Navy or Air Force... How the mighty have fallen.

Update....It seems allah's finest didn't like the above news, so in order to teach tiny little Seychelles a lesson. They decided to launch an attack on the Topaz, (The coastguard ship in question) with 3 well armed ships. Problem was unlike the Royal Navy who would have surrendered, the Topaz fought back setting the Pirate mothership on fire, sinking one of the boats and getting the other to sail off into the night. The best snippet from the news article reads:

"The fate of the pirates on all three vessels is unknown,"

Over a space of a couple of days one ship 'the Topaz' has inflicted more damage onto the pirate problem in that region than the PC shackled Royal Navy has in over a couple of years . Hat tip: Eye On The World