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...another orange speck flickers on the radar screen, the captain gently pushes his twin-engine Lambro up to 30 knots. Two hours into an overnight patrol, the coast guard boat glides nearer its invisible target in the narrow strait separating the Greek island of Lesbos from mainland Turkey. The 36-ft. (11 m) cruiser slows as it draws close to its quarry, and its four Greek sailors gather at the front windshield. One of the men trips the Lambro's floodlights. Bobbing in the open sea 50 feet away are five young men, shielding their eyes from the sudden beam...
...abandoned after the crossing - if the boat and its passengers make it. In October, in separate incidents, Greek and Turkish authorities recovered 18 bodies; the E.U. estimates that 3,000 or more people die annually attempting to slip into Europe by sea. Before setting out on the patrol I accompanied, one of the Greek sailors shakes his head and sums up the situation in a single word: "Chaos...
...variety of nations' warships now patrol the waters off Somalia. Vessels of the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet are there, together with the British, the French and others. (The Indians destroyed a pirate ship the other day; good for them.) Such action honors a long tradition, which includes a march of U.S. Marines against the Barbary corsairs on the shores of Tripoli...
...first step is to internationalize Somalia’s waters until a functional government can patrol them. The United Nations Security Council moved in this direction last June by passing a resolution that allows foreign vessels to enter Somalia’s territorial waters and use “all necessary means” to combat piracy, a ruling that does not apply to other pirate hotspots such as Vietnam or Indonesia. While this resolution was a good start, a more concerted effort to stamp out piracy should be created through an international naval peacekeeping mission that controls waterways much...
...Somali state barely exists. And they are further emboldened by the jurisdictional difficulty of figuring out where to put arrested pirate suspects on trial. Strict rules of engagement also prevent foreign navies from attacking suspected pirate vessels unless they are caught carrying out a raid. That means that patrol boats can rarely interdict the pirate "mother ships" that ply international waters, directing the speedboats to their prey...