Posted on 01/22/2006 8:44:39 AM PST by MARKUSPRIME
The US navy says it has captured a number of suspected pirates in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Somalia.
The guided missile destroyer USS Winston S Churchill went in pursuit of a suspect vessel after receiving a report of piracy, the navy said.
When other efforts failed, the Churchill fired warning shots to bring the boat to a halt.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Whew.......having a guided missile destroyer from the US Navy chasing you down. Man..........can you say "pucker factor"???
This was posted last night, but it's worth reading the BBC version.
This was a game of cat and mouse -- more like tiger and mouse.
IF nothing else, it was a great surface interdiction drill for the crew. (was never a fair fight ;-)
Go Navy!
law of the sea is to just blow them out of the water - equal to "shoot, shovel, shutup" on land.
Anybody have a guess about the "religious tendencies" of these guys?
Bad day to be a pirate. Great day to be a US Crewman who can tell his grandchildren that he helped catch pirates.
Captured. Why not sunk?
BTW, if you look closely at the pic, u can c that the foreward deck gun is trained on the smaller vessel.
THAT's pucker factor.
Pirates!
Keelhauling, anyone?
Would have loved to seen the faces of those pirates, as the U.S. Navy hunted them down.
Bummer.
Why capture and not kill?
Now they'll get JAG protection and end up spending 60 days in jail in Vermont.
And Pelosi and Kerry will scream that their human rights have been violated.
What's that small boat behind the pirate's vessel?
I hope they all walked the plank and are swimming with the fishes.
Recordings of Hillary speeches, I suspect. Makes ya wanna shoot yourself in the head.
Gunners Mate dream....ping!
Is that a skiff being towed by the Pirate boat?
..WELL DONE...USN. :))
Grateful world pauses to consider what a dangerous mess shipping would be if the US Navy didn't patrol the oceans like a bunch of big, friendly neighborhood cops.
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