Constant communications and collaboration--among the interagency and among military forces--were essential to conduct th...
We will destroy any skiffs as long as they have a means to travel safely back to shore.
What is your assessment of the recent U.N.-sponsored peace deal signed last year that allowed for Ethiopian troops to wi...
The Coast Guard has done an outstanding job in providing law enforcement detachments.
What is the capacity of the Kenyan judicial system to manage these cases?
Do you see a trend in using armed guards aboard high-value target ships like cruise ships?
who pays for detaining the pirates once they get to Kenya and who is responsible for their treatment?
have we provided, or offered, any assistance to Kenya or other nations to assist with these prosecutions?
We do not believe there is any maximum time under the law, but we can assure you that we try to get them off the ship as...
If the evidence is insufficient for prosecution, we release them. But before doing so, we will confiscate and destroy th...
Secretary Flournoy, the surviving pirate from the attack on the Maersk Alabama was taken from USS Bainbridge to New York...
It's pretty remarkable that, in this first decade in the 21st century, that we should be having a hearing on the issue o...
How has the use of force to rescue Captain Phillips changed what shippers and insurers are doing?
I think we should do that, if that is an inhibiting factor out there.
In other words, pirates attacked less than one-half of 1 percent.
I've never seen such a mess in my life. You have the U.N., African Union, AU, and the EU.
But now it becomes a capacity problem. Particularly, we now find out we're going to be reducing our number of ships to 3...
we, the United States of America, should just have a zero tolerance policy for this type of behavior.
