fire a giant net device over it and secure it in place
or swim up underneath it and disable the steerage
What? is Obama ordering them fuel now?
Is 0bama trying to force the US into open insurrection so as to initiate martial law? Sort of a 4/11 event...or 4/12 to coordinate with Easter?
What the hell is Obama doing? If they get to land, the game is over.
How far offshore did this fiasco start out?
I hate to say this but I wouldn’t hold out much “hope” for the captain if those guys make it to shore. We might want to do something, BO.
Of COURSE the Islamofascist terrorists are going to claim he’s alive! He means more to them than they do to him. He’s their only ticket out of there. (Ha-Ha. They’re doomed, anyway.)
In My Perfect World, if the Captain is dead, that little craft will be blown to smithereenes. (No offense to ‘The Smithereens.’)
Only two outcomes that I can dee...
a. 0 has blood on his hands
b. 0 caves and pays pirates ransom with taxpayer’s money
One tactic would be to shoot the vessel and cause it to sink thus spilling the terrorists into the water. Sort of like shooting the tires out of a fleeing vehicle. This would be dangerous though and could result in the death of the Captain.
Negotiations over the American captain taken hostage by Somali pirates broke down on Saturday, according to Somali officials, after American officials insisted that the pirates be arrested and a group of elders representing the pirates refused.
Somali officials said the American captain, Richard Phillips, and the four heavily armed pirates holding him hostage remained in a covered lifeboat floating in the Indian Ocean about 30 miles off Gara’ad, a notorious pirate den in northeastern Somalia.
The negotiations broke down hours after the pirates fired on a small United States Navy vessel that had tried to approach the lifeboat not long after sunrise Saturday in the Indian
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/world/africa/12somalia.html?_r=1
By sending the FBI and announcing that these pirates will be charged with crimes if they are captured, Obama has effectively put himself in the middle of this.
Daily tagline update.
what the hell is Obamie waiting for to take action???? If he lets that boat reach shore, the Captain is dead.
It was reported earlier that they had no fuel, now they do. How did that happen?
I would assume even a Navy destroyer is armored enough to deflect AK-47 rounds ...why not position a ship between the life boat and shore and keep them from going into port.
Just heard Ed Henry say on CNN that Obama was only “indirectly” involved also because it the issue could be “political”.