Didn't the U.S. try to give aid to Somalia? Then the Warlords prevented aid delivery--prompting the event which gave rise to the popular black hawk down film? (I'm a little hazy here, but am curious.)
Either way, I think it's idiotic for Somali pirates to (a) be pirates, in the sense that they use forcible means to hijack ships and (b) start acting bellicose when their forcible means lead to dead pirates.
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