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I think that you'd find that a majority of the nations that would normally respond to a call for naval assistance (read: Western Europe) would require a caveat barring executions. An international task force that would enforce the laws as written would involve some strange bedfellows - Russia, China, Iran, Egypt, the US, etc.
The thing is that this smells a bit like "welfare queens" to me. By that I mean that you're looking at this as a low risk venture with no downside. It takes serious despiration to get into an open boat with a bunch of other armed men to chase down ships. I don't see that portion of the act as "low risk" given the possibilities of storms, breakdowns, bad navigation, failure to find any ships, etc. let alone finding a naval vessel by mistake. Let's remember that we have -no- data on how many pirates set out and never come back. It could be a huge percentage. It could be that all of them come back. We don't know.
And I can't imagine that pirates think that jail in a foreign country is a spectacular tradeoff either.
Finally, drugs are the problem in Somalia. If they were, there would be a bigger international outcry to fix the problem. These are simple warlords, interested only in controlling their little nest of territory.
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