The officer responsible for denying the British Marines who witnessed the hijacking / kidnapping at close quarters permission to intervene ( which is what they'd been trained for in the first place !), should hang his head in SHAME !! So should the Royal Navy Captain who said,in yesterday's "Times" newspaper, that the answer to the "piracy problem " does not lie at sea ! What a C... !!
             I gather that our gutless,spineless,rules-of-engagement obsessed ,dithering British government are scared witless of actually CAPTURING any pirates alive ( and TERRIFIED of Worldwide approbation if they actually KILLED one, God forbid !), because those pirates would then have to be taken back to Britain where they would,naturally ,be entitled to claim asylum !! Personally,I think an "asylum" is what David Cameron and Nick Clegg are running,to be honest ; our Navy must be the laughing stock of the world,and certainly in Somalia.All those billions of pounds worth of unbelievably sophisticated,satellite-assisted,surveillance devices,and they can't keep track of a few suspicious small-craft ?? BOLLOCKS !!!!!