This is how the Somali pirates are going to meet their demise!

[Are_grits_groceries]

Hardline Islamists vow to fight Somali pirates.

Islamist leaders have promised to fight the Somali pirates and to protect international shipping.
The hardline Islamic authorities in the southern Somali port of Kismayo vowed to forge an unlikely alliance by joining the efforts of the Nato and European Union naval task forces patrolling the pirate-infested Gulf of Aden.

"We will set up marine forces and will protect all ships and vessels from the pirates off the coastal areas we control," said Sheikh Hasan Yaqub, a spokesman for the Islamist administration in Kismayo.

"We will never allow those gangs to cause havoc in our waters anymore and we will protect all vessels."

Kismayo, one of the largest cities in Somalia, was captured in August by an alliance of Islamist fighters - who are conquering much of the country - and the warlord Hassan al-Turki, the leader of a group called al-Itihaad al-Islamiya which is considered a terrorist organisation by the US government.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/piracy/348367...

They will apply sharia. If they forge an alliance, those pirates are toast.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. It'll be nice to see those pirates getting blown out of the water

[slackmaster]

2. Maybe we can get the Scientologists pissed off at them too

:rofl:

[denem]

5. I'd prefer the Islamists piessed off with the scientologists

;-)

[TheWraith]

3. Enh, I'll believe it when I see it.

It's too easy to publicly proclaim opposition, then take a share of the booty under the table as an incentive to look the other way.

[foxfeet]

4. Heads will roll.

Western intervention may not look so bad, after all.:popcorn:

[aquart]

6. What religion are the Somalis?

Is this to be another race war like Darfur?

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. They are Muslim, like the others.

The closest parallel to this is the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan. They took on drug gangs and local warlords and imposed stability on the country - with themselves in charge, allied to fundamentalist radicals like Bin Laden, and enforcing Sharia law.

They will be helped by Saudi Arabia, paying for protection of the oil tankers, and for two years after the warlords and pirates are gone, the Somalis will praise the Islamists - then they will be helpless as the Islamists turn to public stonings and beheadings for infractions of Islamic law, women and girls will be acid burned for trying to get an education, and the men and boys will be drafted to fight Jihad in the Sudan.