Somali Pirates size US ship.

I was actually talking to a former Somali pirate a few days ago! “Retired” from it a long time ago, now a Minneapolis cab driver, who drinks beer but I suspect that he maintains contacts in Somalia.
Back five or so years back when he did it the Somali pirates preyed on the locals. Then the Somalis set up an alliance/bribery with the North Koreans and Cubans. The commies harvested far more fish than they said they would so the coastline got very badly over fished. This caused the Somali fisherman to venture farther out into shipping lanes to try to catch fish. The pirates followed and started harassing shipping.
The pirates found this more lucrative than an empty fishing boat (the old piracy when he did it was basically “commandeer the catch” and some valuables on the boat). According to the “pirate emeritus” this turned into an “industry” due to the money of course but also the lack of retaliation.
Over a few more beers I slipped in a few more leading questions and technical details but he stayed in “kabe” so I tend to believe him.
I also assumed he had no malice against us but he had communication potential with the current class of pirates. We also had a lengthy discussions about the capabilities and uses of moder n “flying aircraft carriers” (google it) of you are lazy http://newwars.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/amazing-aircraft-carrier-alternatives-flying-aircraft-carriers/
I’ve studied airships for more than 30 years. Airships can be tendered and refueled by marine ships. They can stay on station for days or even weeks at a time without refueling. Their radar is “look down” and can have “line of sight” radius of hundreds of miles.. The aircraft launch and retrieval was refined even for jets in the 1950’s but you don’t exactly need a “supersonic stealth fighter” airplane to counter a pirate boat, just a “weapons platform”. Heck, a diesel engine biplane would do just fine. Also, with an “air drop” launch an airplane can have a far greater takeoff weight, the equivalent of air-refueling “topping off”.
Our “pirate emeritus” listened intently to the details on this. I might have said that it was very early develop but I was acting sort of “drunk” at the time. Again, a lot of technical questions back and forth so I think he was “pumping me for information”.
An even chance the “flying aircraft carriers” might get back to Somalia and the pirates. If the active Somali pirates get in a “tizzy” over it the US communications eavesdropping will pick up “chatter” on this weapon that is so secret that not even the US government knows about it.
We will see if this is what it takes for a US native to communicate and idea to the US government.