hno:
Hostage rescued, 3 pirates killed by US Navy Seals and the 4th pirate is in US custody. What else do you people want from our navy and FBI?
I highly doubt there will be any further attempts by Somalian pirates to seize ships flying an American flag.
Meanwhile 6 more Americans troops were killed this weekend while serving their country fighting Bush's needless Iraq invasion.
The captain of a US cargo vessel who had been held captive by Somali pirates since Wednesday has been freed during an operation in which three of the pirates were killed and one was captured.
Richard Phillips had been held hostage on a lifeboat after pirates tried to seize his ship, the Maersk Alabama, last week. The ship's crew of 20 quickly regained control of the vessel, but Phillips, a 53-year-old former taxi driver, offered himself to the pirates as a hostage in order to safeguard his crew.
US officials said Captain Phillips, was uninjured and in good condition and had been taken aboard the USS Bainbridge, one of three US naval warship which had been tracking the lifeboat.
The four pirates, armed with assault rifles and a grenade launcher, had run out of fuel and had been drifting towards the Somali coastline with their captive.
Phillips is thought to have been the first American to be taken captive by Somali pirate gangs who have marauded in the busy Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean shipping lanes for years.
Guardian.UK.Co.
wil.
I highly doubt there will be any further attempts by Somalian pirates to seize ships flying an American flag.
Meanwhile 6 more Americans troops were killed this weekend while serving their country fighting Bush's needless Iraq invasion.
The captain of a US cargo vessel who had been held captive by Somali pirates since Wednesday has been freed during an operation in which three of the pirates were killed and one was captured.
Richard Phillips had been held hostage on a lifeboat after pirates tried to seize his ship, the Maersk Alabama, last week. The ship's crew of 20 quickly regained control of the vessel, but Phillips, a 53-year-old former taxi driver, offered himself to the pirates as a hostage in order to safeguard his crew.
US officials said Captain Phillips, was uninjured and in good condition and had been taken aboard the USS Bainbridge, one of three US naval warship which had been tracking the lifeboat.
The four pirates, armed with assault rifles and a grenade launcher, had run out of fuel and had been drifting towards the Somali coastline with their captive.
Phillips is thought to have been the first American to be taken captive by Somali pirate gangs who have marauded in the busy Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean shipping lanes for years.
Guardian.UK.Co.
wil.
We are all offering our points of view on this subject so why can't I also add my view?
At least I am not like alot of people in here and can't have a civil conversation without attacking people... Shows the intelligence and education or lack of from the posters here.
I have better things to do than attack people, just like to debate but I see I will not be getting that in this forum as everybody has an agenda and I really don't need to waste my time with uneducated people...
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