Talking About Somalia and Piracy

EagleOne and Noah cover the details of the blogger roundtable today with Admiral McKnight. Feel free to read the transcript (PDF) of the conversation, but I assure you it was much more painful to participate in than read, and based on the email I've received from those who have read it, the transcript is painful to read.

Be sure and read Noah's article all the way to the end and hit the link, he links back to EagleOne who is covering tactical evolution of piracy off the coast of Somalia, exactly the concern I expressed yesterday over at the USNI Blog.

For the record, the image is stolen from EagleOne, although ID regular Ken Adams was who produced it. The transit lanes for the convoy system are being adjusted on Feb. 1, 2009 further away from the Yemen coast to avoid the fishing flotillas the old lanes were near. Fishing boats and pirate boats look the same, so the international coalition is making adjustments in what I'd bet is an attempt to reduce false alarms.