[Girlene]

From the AP, FBI hostage team joins standoff with pirates

"The military has called in FBI hostage negotiators to help end a standoff with Somali pirates holding a U.S. ship captain hostage.

The pirates are holding the captain in a drifting lifeboat, with a U.S. warship watching nearby.

FBI spokesman Richard Kolko says FBI hostage negotiators are "fully engaged" in the standoff." The pirates took Capt. Richard Phillips as a hostage after an attack on a U.S. cargo ship. The American crew retook the ship and the pirates fled into the lifeboat. Hostage negotiators and military officials are working to free Phillips.

[Beaten Valve]

Good Lord!

Can’t we just send Obama out there and have him “bow” to them??

[Old Teufel Hunden]

So I guess they didn’t make it back to the “mother ship”. Let’s hope they get this captain back. These clowns know he is their only bargaining chip. Maybe we can exchange him for a French captain and let them on their way. I’m sure the French would be more than willing to pay the ransom... : )

[El Gato]

FBI hostage team joins standoff with pirates

So when do they fire the tear gas and burn the lifeboat to the waterline?