Commander-Ship Vs. Pirate-Ship Action

"We have to make it unpleasant to be a pirate," Vice Admiral William Gortney, the commander of the US Fifth Fleet based in Bahrain, said to reporters in Somalia. "That's where we capture them, and try them and hold them accountable for their actions if they are found guilty."
That is the basic setting for the waters around Somali; Commanders after Pirates. The US Navy will begin to move more aggressively to 'arrest' and bring to trial the pirates that are preying on the shipping boats off the coast. Although the pirates have lessened their number of advances due to an increase of pressure from the resistance, they are still averaging 12 to 14 abductions a month.
The reason for the continued attacks, even with 14 countries of naval vessels in the Gulf of Aden, is because pirates are bad-ass and are unaware of what its like to be held captive by their enemy. But the issue of jurisdiction for the capturing of rebels in international waters remains an anchored one. With only a weak transitional government in the unstable Somali, the US and other navies have had no where to take captured pirates. The UN Security Council passed a resolution last month that allows authorized countries to take "all necessary means" to overcome the acts of piracy. Gortney states, "We are going to aggressively go after the pirates that are conducting pirate activities. It's going to be a mixture of surveillance and rapid action."