More work for Gurkhas

The US 5th Fleet in Bahrain on Monday urged the private shipping industry to do more itself against pirates. That would include shippers considering hiring private armed security escorts.

Rico says the Gurkhas are good at this sort of thing, and they can use the money...

Compliment of the day: "The French know how to deal with them, killing one of them. This is very nice," said Lotf al-Baraty, chief of the Yemeni coast guard's Gulf of Aden region.