Obama had ordered the Navy to provide food, water and fuel to the lifeboat. Why is anyone surprised that the terrorists are making a run for the coast with their hostage?
If true I say we mobilize.....
I think the pirates are being fed disinformation. The boat can’t move 165 miles in a day. At that speed, it would take 200 gallons of gasoline.
Has the payoff been quiety made already?
How did it get around the destroyer?
They obviously want to humiliate the US in the short term, but most probably will free their hostages as a gesture of goodwill to their crypto-muslim brother Hussein Baraka.
At which point, it will be telling if any United States retaliation post event occurs.
If not, taking US citizens hostage and firing at our military on the high seas will be forgiven in the interests of political expediency and a US socialist party propaganda event.
God save the USA.
When will the bowing "CIC" stop "following" and start leading?
This is incompetence. Three pirates with AKs against the entire US military!!! What is Obama waiting for????
FINISH THESE GOONS.
ABC news and CNN are both reporting the same set of events - numerous articles now appearing across the web... hopefully they are inaccurate
Look...all of this is happening literally on the other side of the planet from us, and there is no way in hell that we or anyone else outside of the Pentagon rally know what is going on. It’s hard to believe, but the Horn of Africa really is one of the remotest places on the globe from us.
‘WE’ don’t want to upset the TERRORISTS!
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Negotiations Break Down in Standoff With Pirates
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.
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 Ocean.
It was the first such approach since the standoff began on Wednesday, and the vessel returned to a nearby Navy destroyer, the Bainbridge, after the pirates fired warning shots in the air, according to an American military official.
The American boat did not return fire and “did not want to escalate the situation,” said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/world/africa/12somalia.html?_r=1
How about a little deductive reasoning, here?
Triple A doesn't deliver that far out. (pirate) Friendlies were denied access. US Navy is on hand, and no one is likely to ... ah, contribute without their permission.
Does the Obscenity in Chief still carry his Blackberry?
You know, the one he uses to communicate through those really, really back channels. Yeah, the hack-proof one ... that's the one I mean.
and here is the maps.google.com photo of eyl, somalia which is the pirate’s lair.
there’s a seaside base and “eyl city” about 2 miles to the northwest.
I heard some very NEGATIVE RUNORS! Why can’t we stop it all????
If they make to shore or to help, 0bama should be impeached, now!
PING.
It’s becoming unavoidably obvious that somebody is in over their head here; those whose voices were drowned in the caution advanced and silenced by the enamored clamor can take no comfort nor any delight in the certainty of their foreboding.
Vanity has once again raised her foolish head on a fruitless, outstretched neck only to find her ass mired in the muck.
What now, valiant heart and stalwart soul...?