[Old Teufel Hunden]

"I think the pirates destroyed their own boat when they first took the cargo ship."

Not very bright guys I guess. Well it sounds like the negotiations should be short. Look, sit in the boat and die of dehydration and starvation (whichever comes first) or come aboard our ship, get fed and get a nice cot behind our steel bars.

[spectre]

Fox news just reported that Hillary Clinton said the "life boat is out of gas".

Interesting scenerio ahead.

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[Girlene]

The pirates probalby destroyed their boat, I guess, because they didn't think they'd need it after boarding the cargo ship. More from AP, FBI assisting in efforts to rescue US ship captain

"The U.S. Navy summoned the FBI in crisis atmosphere Thursday for advice on how to rescue a cargo ship captain held hostage in the Indian Ocean by pirates who seized his vessel off the coast of Somalia."..............

.........."The FBI was summoned as the Pentagon substantially stepped up its monitoring of the hostage standoff, sending in P-3 Orion surveillance aircraft and other equipment and securing video footage of the scene.

Defense Department officials would not say Thursday morning just how close the USS Bainbridge was to a small lifeboat where Phillips was being held near the Maersk Alabama.

But one official, speaking on grounds of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation, said the pirates "could see it with their eyes." Another official said there were several other vessels in the vicinity, but it was unclear whether any were the so-called "mother ship" that pirates use to drop them at hijacking sites."...........