Talk:March 18, 2006 incident off Somalia

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I dont think this ariticle should be merged, it already has a version in the french wikipedia that is longer than the english version, if anything please help to expand it! Unsigned comment posted by user:67.84.178.107 00:11, 11 July 2007

[edit] Why is the pirate flag here?

Unless there is evidence that 21st century Somali ‘pirates’ are flying 18th century English pirate flags, I cannot see a reason to add that flag. And if those 21st century Somali ‘pirates’ are not flying a flag, why add a flag that is nothing to do with them? There is no official pirate flag.

Further reasons not to have the ‘pirate flag’

The popular image of pirates, which the Jolly Roger represents, in the popular imagination, is nothing like the reality of pirates operating of the African coast in the 21st century. The only reason as some have said for having Jolly Roger is that it represents pirates. But modern piracy is a world apart from the popular myths or reality of 18th century piracy.

Further, two different pirate flags have appeared at different times, so there is no single common pirate flag. And no ‘official generic pirate flag’.

It has been said that Islamic terrorists don’t fly the flag of jihad. If that is the case, then that is a reason not to have the flag of jihad.

It simply isn’t encyclopaedic. Chwyatt (talk) 07:36, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "first action of the 21st century"

I can't find a citation for this. I suspect it isn't true. I seem to recall that the U.S. Navy ships attacked Iraqi small craft during the the Iraq War which would predate this incident. But I can't find a source for that at the moment either. Rmhermen (talk) 14:50, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Wasn't a US Naval vessel's motorboat intercepted by the Iranian Navy at some point? I'm pretty sure before those British sailors got arrested / kidnapped a similar incident occured with a US Naval vessel. Sure, its hardly a fire-fight but it does constitute "action". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.104.81.118 (talk) 04:27, 4 June 2008 (UTC)