Insufficient Evidence Could Force U.S. Navy to Return Suspected Pirates to Somalia

From Fox News.com (February 13):

WASHINGTON — Questions emerged Friday about whether the U.S. Navy can continue to hold a group of suspected pirates captured on the high seas and kept for now in floating jail cells ringed with barbed wire.

At issue are nine men, probably Somalis, seized Thursday from a small skiff in the Gulf of Aden. A Navy ship fired warning shots and sailors boarded the skiff and arrested the men after a distress call from an Indian-flagged merchant ship. [read more]

Pirates huh. Let's call them what they really are--terrorists. It's not that they are wearing an eye-patch and singing, "Yo ho, ho and a bottle of rum." with a parrot on their soldier. First, the Marines cannot hold terrorists on Gitmo, now the Navy cannot hold terrorists on their ships. Not surprising at all. It's too bad the Navy cannot just accidentally push them over the side. The Navy can say they must of slipped and fell over. The Navy is too decent to do that. These pirates will just go back to being pirates again if you release to Somalia.

I don't know why these ships being attacked don't defend themselves. Don't make sense to me.