We need to update the legal system to account for this kind of asymmetrical warfare

France seizes 35 Somali 'pirates'

Good for the French and the coalition allies. The real problem is what to do with them. In the past pirates suffered the death penalty. We are too political correct to do that now. Now, what?

t is not yet clear what France intends to do with the suspects.
More than 100 Somalis accused of piracy have been sent to Kenya, but very few have been convicted and most are languishing in jail awaiting trial in the country's overburdened legal system.
A handful have been sent for trial in France, the Netherlands and the US.
But jurisdiction over suspected pirates seized on the high seas remains unclear and calls for an international tribunal to be set up have so far come to nothing.
Lawlessness in Somalia allows the pirates to function with relative impunity in their own country - and many pirate leaders have reportedly amassed fortunes through ransoms paid by shipping firms.
War-ravaged Somalia has had no functioning central government since 1991.