Sunday, August 3, 2008

Canada should use naval power to protect food shipments to Somalia


We have a navy. What better use for it than fighting pirates? Canada has an opportunity to play a hero on the world stage, and hundreds of thousands of lives are at stake.
For North Vancouver's Denise Brown, deputy director of UN World Food Program (WFP) operations for Somalia, piracy threatens a people already on "a descent into the abyss." Troops from the weak Somali government and U.S.-backed Ethiopia are battling Islamic militias. MORE.http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/editorial/story.html?id=594e8095-a25c-4d40-a951-a5d31750fdf2
Pirates fire grenade at S'pore-flagged vessel: watchdog

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