Once again, we read a story of pirates, bandits, thieves and robbers targeting any moving vessel along their borders, near or far in order to take what is not theirs. The stories are not myths, they are as real as our every waking day; however, they feel there is ability to pillage these vessels not only for the goods they can sell or use, but to take lives for monetary funds in kidnapping ransoms and put fear into the public. My only question through all this – how come they cannot capture more of these people? On land, I can assume they can get away, hide and be absorbed in society, but on a small boat of which cannot go all that fast compared to the state of the art boats most authorities and military personnel have? A thought to ponder on how deep the pay offs go.
