The British press is basically a mouthpiece for Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Russia and Iran. Since the Brits have been in the habit of blaming America for all of their ills, from bad teeth to their bad economy, it's no stretch for them to do this in their news reports.

This pirate attack on a Saudi tanker is fairly ironic, since the Sauds have been financing rabid Islamism and terrorism in Somalia for years. The Iranians have been financing it too.

It's not clear which group of pirate/terrorists are responsible for this. If the Saudis manage to save the tanker by bribing or magically 'reforming' the pirates, we can assume that this was a Saudi setup to make the KSA appear to be essential allies to the west.

If it turns into a bloodbath, or if the Saudis have to pay an inordinate amount of ransom money, the pirate/terrorists were probably influenced by Iran.

Huh. Pirates also seized an Iranian grain ship. Weird that they're targeting their biggest sponsors in the span of two days. There's probably some tribal/gang war going on.

And, of course, the Times is blaming us for that too. The British government and their media treat the British people with total contempt, there's no reason to believe that they would ever be on America's side either.

I think I was right the first time - this whole upsurge in piracy looks like a Saudi setup. The Wahhabi-sponsored Islamist militias are going to magically save the day!

Islamists say they'll fight Somali pirates

What would we do without our wonderful Wahhabi/Salafist friends?

The British press is going to be singing the praises of these brave Islamist fighters for years.

The best thing is to leave the oil tanker there I dont think somalia has oil refineries or tools to deal with oil and transport it in barrels

.....at the end of the day its not gold or consumable things. so leave the oil tanker there till they figure out that oil is not included in piracy......

as for sailors each country can rescue its crew...... or pay for them the ransoms.

The best thing is to leave the oil tanker there I dont think somalia has oil refineries or tools to deal with oil and transport it in barrels

No, the best thing to do is to enforce the laws against piracy. Britain stopped doing that around April 2008, when "the Royal Navy, once the scourge of brigands on the high seas, [was]told by the Foreign Office not to detain pirates because doing so may breach their human rights."

Enforcement of these laws has kept piracy in check for more than a hundred years. When Britain and other NATO forces decided to stop enforcing the laws, the piracy rate went up, as crime tends to do when the laws aren't enforced.