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PIRATES ARE IN FOR A SHIP STORM; US DESTROYER CLOSES IN ON HOSTAGE BOAT (pirates out of fuel)
NY POST ^ | 4/10/09 | REBECCA ROSENBERG in Underhill, Vt., LORENA MONGELLI in Seekonk, Mass, DAN MANGAN in NY

Posted on 04/10/2009 2:06:02 AM PDT by Liz

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To: Liz

The only fair thing to do now is to hand them the keys to the destroyer and ask forgiveness. Let’s hope the destroyer crew remembers to bow.


21 posted on 04/10/2009 2:44:00 AM PDT by KingLudd
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To: dawn53
SEALS could arrive at night via submarine. Maybe even attach a line and tow the vessel (by sub) to a friendly port.

Personally, I'd also leave—unannounced—a basket of fruit on the deck. :)

22 posted on 04/10/2009 2:44:37 AM PDT by Does so (One Big Assed Mistake, America)
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To: Liz

Wait everybody! Have we considered the feelings of the pirates? What drove them to this? Was it Bush? Was it the US? What did the Americans do wrong to cause this kidnapping? Those cargo ships passing back and forth must have done something to instigate this “crisis”! We must compensate the pirates for the hardship we have caused them./s


23 posted on 04/10/2009 2:44:41 AM PDT by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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To: Dallas59

There are people who will have this as an immediate and reflexive reaction, unfortunately.

For all the Hollywood idiocy glamorizing them, high-seas pirates are one of the few classes of people that ought to be immediately killed on positive identification that they are, in fact, pirates. They’re NOT happy-go-lucky, lovable scamps.


24 posted on 04/10/2009 2:58:50 AM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: dawn53

>>>> Why not just position snipers on one of the ships and “take out” the pirates “simulutaneously” <<<<<<<

I’ve been wondering the same thing since yesterday, and yes, a ship the size of the Bainbridge is large enough to provide stable firing platform for snipers.

I will say that unless a Marine unit with snipers was aboard the Bainbridge they would have to be transported in from elsewhere.

Perhaps that’s what’s being done?

There really is no other solution, and it should be easy with only 4 criminal pirates to dispatch.


25 posted on 04/10/2009 3:05:06 AM PDT by angkor
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To: Riley

Hollywood could afford to do that because no pirate has dared tangle with a US vessel for over 200 years. Well yo ho ho and a bottle of hopenchange, they’re back.


26 posted on 04/10/2009 3:06:07 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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To: angkor

Trouble is the boat has a cover and all are beneath it. No way to see where the pirates are.


27 posted on 04/10/2009 3:06:59 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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To: Liz

Actually, rescuing the captain while at the same time shooting and killing all the pirates would be the ideal. IMHO.


28 posted on 04/10/2009 3:06:59 AM PDT by GnL
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To: Jemian

>>>>>> Also, the sea isn’t a flat stable surface. Even our snipers would be challenged. <<<<<<

We don’t know what the sea conditions are where this is taking place.


29 posted on 04/10/2009 3:16:05 AM PDT by angkor
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Ah. I did not know that.


30 posted on 04/10/2009 3:16:55 AM PDT by angkor
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To: Liz
Any one wonder how Reuters got the Satelite phone number?

And why would you call them during hostage negotiations? Scumbags

31 posted on 04/10/2009 3:17:15 AM PDT by DainBramage
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To: DainBramage

Unless the hostage team WANTED them to. Ruse to distract the pirates?


32 posted on 04/10/2009 3:19:46 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
If this were a Russian or Chinese gunship, this thing would have been over by now, and the Pirates would be on their way to see Allah, as a warning to all other Pirates who try to exploit International trade.

American leadership has truly become passive.

As far as using snipers, the target is moving too much to take a clean shot. The lighter boat is moving on the swells very rapidly to the point of gyration. Any attempt would guarantee the death of the Captain.

What is needed is, for the Destroyer to order them to surrender if they want to live. (no conditions) If they kill the Captain, then they carpet the boat's location with 105 and 30 mm cannon fire, until all that is left is flotation foam. Then inform the Somali Government to curb their little games or else expect more of the same, and sink all Pirate boats on sight.

33 posted on 04/10/2009 3:51:52 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP
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To: Liz

Good info on the lifeboat. This could go on for weeks but it sounds like the captain may have disabled the boat to keep it from going far.

http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/maersk-alabama-lifeboat-faq/


34 posted on 04/10/2009 3:57:16 AM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: zipper

Was it OK when George W. Bush bowed to the Saudi King?


35 posted on 04/10/2009 3:59:39 AM PDT by Boiling Pots (The Politicians think we're all stupid, and they're largely correct.)
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To: Liz

I think that, as soon as enough USN power is on the scene and the TV helicopters are in place, they will kill this poor guy in front of the world and laugh in Obama’s face.


36 posted on 04/10/2009 4:01:45 AM PDT by Jim Noble (They are willing to kill for socialism...but not to die for it.)
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To: Boiling Pots
Was it OK when George W. Bush bowed to the Saudi King?

When did this happen?
37 posted on 04/10/2009 4:11:00 AM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: Liz
The current U.S.S. Bainbridge (#5) is DDG 96:

25 was the fourth.

38 posted on 04/10/2009 4:12:41 AM PDT by Drago
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To: Liz

One SEAL in the water. Approach from below. Poke a small hole in the lifeboat and leave. Ten minutes later the hostage and the pirates will all be swimming and the hostage can be plucked out of the water and the pirates safely left behind.


39 posted on 04/10/2009 4:15:53 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (To stand up for Capitalism is to hope Teleprompter Boy fails.)
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To: Liz
Hi Liz. Nice pictures, although that's the wrong ship in the picture. Same name, but the one in your picture was decommisioned (it used to be a nucleared powered ship, one of few that are not aircraft carriers, submarines, or ice breakers). It was a nuclear powered guided missile cruiser, similar in powerplant to the USS Long Beach, which was also nuclear powered.

The current USS Bainsbridge is an Arleigh Burke AEGIS Destroyer, and while it may not have a powerplant like the prior Bainsbridge had, in terms of weapons and systems and overall capability it is much better.

40 posted on 04/10/2009 4:17:32 AM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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