–Begin Daily Mail rant–

More ridiculous politically-correct nonsense from HM Government (following the Abu Qatada debacle). This time, according to the Times:

> THE Royal Navy, once the scourge of brigands on the high seas, has been told by the Foreign Office not to detain pirates because doing so may breach their human rights.

> Warships patrolling pirate-infested waters, such as those off Somalia, have been warned that there is also a risk that captured pirates could claim asylum in Britain.

> The Foreign Office has advised that pirates sent back to Somalia could have their human rights breached because, under Islamic law, they face beheading for murder or having a hand chopped off for theft.

Poor lambs.

The French showed a little more backbone recently. Their equivalent of the SBS first got the hostages freed, then went into Somalia and not only captured the kidnappers–members of the so-called “Somali Marines“–but also got the ransom monies back.

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