"In 2006, militant supporters of the Islamic Courts Union, an alliance of Sharia tribunals, won control of Somalia and imposed religious law.

"Under the Courts, there was literally no piracy," says Hans Tino Hansen, chief executive of Risk Intelligence, a maritime security consultant in Denmark.

Then the U.S. helped drive out the Muslim rulers to prevent the East African country from becoming a terrorist haven, leaving behind a lawless chaos in which piracy has flourished." - Charley Noble

Sorry Chuck, I've never heard such a load of bollocks in all my life, you obviously do not know a single thing about the area of the world you are talking about and are desperately cherry-picking things to provide a band of bandits with justification and an excuse for what they are doing.

So from what you have posted "piracy" only became a problem after 2006 because the US got the Ethiopians to "invade" Somalia, be rather difficult to establish that, I mean who provided the Ethiopians with all that Warsaw Pact Hardware??? Who was it that over threw "The Lion of Juda", wasn't the Americans was it Chuck??

I'll let you into a little secret Chuck - Piracy has been a problem in the Gulf of Aden, off the Horn of Africa for at least the past 42 years that I have been aware of.

By the bye, one thing you were right about:

"...new Somali pirate song I was able to harvest from the web:

By Susanna Viljanen, © 11-29-08
Parody of "Sleigh Ride"

Sea Raid (The Somali Pirate Song)

It's not a particularly good one, in my opinion, but it's fresh!

Charley Noble"

That's it Charlie - never mind the quality feel the width - Not particularly good!!!! - Try absolutely bloody pathetic as a description of it. I mean!! I ask you:

"Giddy-up, giddy-up, giddy-up, raid we
We're wolves of the sea -"

What was the dozey cow thinking about??

You, and that songs composer, should have a go putting yourselves on the business end of one of those AK-47's you seem so keen on singing about - then tell us all how bloody enjoyable it is, maybe you could "camcord" it, could end up as a pay day on AFV. Tell you what Chuck - give us a shanty about mugging - exactly the same crime - different setting - different scale.