Do the pirates ever hijack anything other than oil shipments? If not, then using renewable energy to power our cars, trucks, and other vehicles will help put these people out of business too. Until then sounds like the ships owners need to put guards on these ships and give the pirates an unpleasant surprise.

Annie Kate
Birmingham AL

Must mean our recent spate of gasoline price drops will reverse. The BIG OIL companies will use ANY excuse to raise prices.

But, truly, in a way, this could be a big solution...maybe the extremist Muslim population can be sicced on the pirates because they are hitting Saudi Arabia. That gives them an outlet for their aggression, the world gets rid of a lot of pirates/petty terrorists! Win/Win for the world!

I can't see why these companies keep sending these ships into that area with no protection when the piracy there is way out of control. You'd think they'd use common sense and have other boats with them to ensure their safe passage through.

I'm just wondering what they are going to do to stop all of the hijacking that is going on? They can't continue to let it keep happening. Sooner or later someone is going to die. They need to get harsh on this problem before it gets even crazier.

I wish 360 would do a report on this soon.

Cindy...Ga.

A pirate did to the Saudis what they have doing to us?

The UN needs to convoy ships transitting this area to ward off the pirates. The shipping companies need to hire their own shipboard security teams. If the Somoli transitional government would make a formal request to the UN or counties who's flagged ships were taken, to rid their waters of the pirates, it would not only help stabilize their country, but add credibility to it.

I am totally amazed that in this day and age when Israel for instance can pinpoint a car carrying a "most wanted terrorist" through a satellite camera or some such thing, and hit it to smithereens, that these low life, criminals in their small motor boats, canno be detected from the sky and shot to smithereens. This is so outrageous and such a taunt and "up yours" sign to the so-called super-powers, that it makes you wonder, "what is really going on here?"

The ship should not be destroyed, it would be a major environmental disaster.

Why don't they just make a force of commerce raiders in reverse. Load out a few freighters & tankers with hidden heavy weapons with crews of special forces without the uniforms. Once the pirate attacks one they get a very deadly surprise. The Germans used commerce raiders in WW1 . It's not a new idea.

Robbing an oil tanker. why the hell didnt we think of that?!