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U.S. ship captain held by pirates off Somalia, has been freed,
CNN ^

Posted on 04/12/2009 10:25:08 AM PDT by Ladycalif

U.S. ship captain held by pirates off Somalia, has been freed, senior U.S. official says. Three of four pirates killed.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 444; alabama; maritime; navyseals; owned; piracy; pirates; rescue; richardphillps; seals; somalia; somaliapirates; somalipirates; usnavy
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To: al baby
Whats a beeber?

Something that gets stuned.

Are you logged in?

241 posted on 04/12/2009 10:58:13 AM PDT by Jim Noble (They are willing to kill for socialism...but not to die for it.)
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To: STARWISE
You don’t mess with our Navy SEALS!

Easter SEALs? :-)

242 posted on 04/12/2009 10:58:18 AM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Nervous Tick
>> Happy dancing!!!!

You’re kidding, right?


Not them. Me! Happy dancing at hearing the news that the Captain has been freed/rescued.
243 posted on 04/12/2009 10:58:21 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: dirtboy

>>Exactly. Tell the world what went down, and those tactics probaby won’t work nex time.

I think we need to give enough info out so that pirates would be very, very afraid to go after US vessels again.


244 posted on 04/12/2009 10:58:36 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks.)
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To: umgud

That’s just too cumbersome ... ya know, good news.


245 posted on 04/12/2009 10:58:36 AM PDT by STARWISE (They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Three out of four ain’t bad. And on Easter too! :-)


246 posted on 04/12/2009 10:58:38 AM PDT by ShandaLear (I LOVE RUSH!)
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To: calex59

Exactly....


247 posted on 04/12/2009 10:58:40 AM PDT by Electric Graffiti (In Guns We Trust)
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To: Ladycalif

Wonderful News!

We need to hunt down the surviving pirate and deal with him too.


248 posted on 04/12/2009 10:58:43 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: digger48

I would have thought that the the same White House staff of chefs who prepare huge state dinners for all kinds of different nationalities could whip up a freakin’ pizza with no sweat.

I think flying in Guido from the Chicago ‘hood was a “because I can” moment.


249 posted on 04/12/2009 10:58:54 AM PDT by hattend (Sarah Palin has run a fishing business, a city, and a state. All Obama has done is run his mouth.)
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To: JimRed

I agree. I wasn’t really calling for it, just knowing that it will happen. Obama is too vain.


250 posted on 04/12/2009 10:59:04 AM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: Kansas58

“Obama and Axelrod read the polls.”

I think there is some truth to that.


251 posted on 04/12/2009 10:59:34 AM PDT by varina davis (Life is not a dress rehearsal)
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To: Mike Darancette; jveritas
Time was our ally. When we got enough resources in the area we just flooded the zone (to use a b-ball term) too many things for the pirates to watch.

Horse sh**! The Captain jumped overboard, otherwise he would still be floating his butt to Somalia in the life boat! The Bozo didn't release the Navy, the Seals acted after he jumper out of the boat. Time was not our ally because this time tomorrow the pirates would have made landfall.

252 posted on 04/12/2009 10:59:35 AM PDT by calex59
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To: JimRed

The details are years away if ever. Of course the Captain continually seeking escape from a boat in the Ocean should surely give him and his rescuers quite high praise and reward from the Navy.


253 posted on 04/12/2009 11:00:16 AM PDT by eyedigress
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To: wagglebee
We need to hunt down the surviving pirate and deal with him too.

He should be easy to find. He was on Bainbridge, negotiating. Which is why he is still alive.

254 posted on 04/12/2009 11:00:18 AM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: fullchroma
CORRECTION!: (Please, oh please, Captain, do NOT include Oprah, the View, Maddow or Obermann on the interview circuit.)

I agreed with the uncorrected version.

Can you imagine Oprah's face with the Captain telling her the truth about these people? Even I would watch her show to see him take her down a peg or two.

255 posted on 04/12/2009 11:00:18 AM PDT by fanfan (God, Bless America, please.)
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To: Mike Darancette
It was mentioned that the 4th pirate was on the navy ship negotiating.

How did he get on that ship?

256 posted on 04/12/2009 11:00:41 AM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: Ladycalif

Good.


257 posted on 04/12/2009 11:00:52 AM PDT by snowsislander (NRA -- join today! 1-877-NRA-2000)
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To: perchprism
It looks to me like the captain did what he had to do to stay alive.

Looks like Phillips precipitated the action by jumping out of the boat again. Loitering Navy Seals saw this and removed the pirates. I don't think we can depend on other hostages to be as brave next time.

258 posted on 04/12/2009 11:00:56 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (We have nothing to fear but Obama himself.)
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To: Husker8877
"Many of our posters sound just like the idiots over at DU every time things went right for a republican."

I agree, it's unbelievable. Griping about how it, "took too long", instead of focusing on the objective. The safe rescue of the pilot was the objective.

259 posted on 04/12/2009 11:01:06 AM PDT by blaquebyrd
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To: All

Captain Phillips deserves at least half, if not the bulk of the credit.

The “average” man would have resigned himself to situation and would have waited for events to unfold. This man put his life on the line to save others and eventually himself.

Huzzah!


260 posted on 04/12/2009 11:01:08 AM PDT by IDRATHERNOT
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