"Piracy Watch: Good on the French!"/Plus us Update

From Tom Ricks, love the .50 cal.:

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Update: The French frigate above, FS NIVOSE (Floréal class), is part of the EU's NAVFOR Somalia, more here.

Mdeanwhile, HMCS Fredericton ("Stalker of the Seas") is also on the Jolly Somali case as part of another international naval group:

Canadian warship on counter-terrorism mission near Yemen


File photo of HMCS Fredericton in the Gulf of Aden During Operation SAIPH on December 10, 2009.
Photograph by: Corporal Shilo Adamson, Corporal Shilo Adamson

In the massive expanse of water known as the Arabian Sea, a Canadian navy frigate from Halifax is on patrol.

Part of an international coalition working in the waters off the coasts of Yemen and Somalia, HMCS Fredericton is patrolling near the Gulf of Aden and the Gulf of Oman on a counter-terrorism and security mission.

The frigate has joined Combined Task Force 150, a coalition of navies that includes the United States, Britain, Pakistan, Portugal and others, and which is currently under the command of the Royal Australian Navy...