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Posted on 04/13/2009 1:44:49 PM PDT by Nachum
MALINDI, Kenya — With Somali pirates pointing an automatic rifle at a hostage American ship captain, U.S. Navy sharpshooters opened fire Sunday, killing the pirates and ending an extraordinary five-day standoff that marked the first seizure of a U.S. vessel by pirates on the high seas in at least two centuries.
Three pirates were killed, the Pentagon said. The captain, 53-year-old Richard Phillips of Underhill, Vt., was rescued unharmed and taken aboard a U.S. warship. A fourth pirate who'd surrendered earlier also was being detained and could face trial in the United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...
Obammy got them covered:
‘Dream Act’ Amnesty for Illegal Alien Teens Is Back!
http://www.numbersusa.com/content/news/march-30-2009/dream-act-amnesty-reintoduced-congress.html
(The age limit for “teens” is now 35)
Guess they took a turn for the worse.
What they need over there is a good midnight basketball program.
I don’t believe that for a minute. They possibly may have run one gun dry but no one would be stupid enough to shoot all their ammo in such a situation.
Sounds like the typical “America is the bad guy” types you can always count on crawling out of the garbage pile.
Next come the calls for Congressional hearings, followed by war crimes trials, for the SEALs.
"Pirates" has negative connotations (unless you live in the Pittsburgh area).
Obama twice authorized an attack against three unarmed youths who were just beginning to turn their lives around?!
No wonder I refused to vote for that schmuck!
So what you’re saying is zero ordered the shooting of unarmed men? To the Hague with him.
"You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred."
Wow, so Obama ordered attacks when there were no weapons of mass destruction. Obama lied people died!
“Well, he should have armed himself...”
America has a teenager locked up somewhere that was involved in on the job training of shooting innocent people from the trunk of a car. It’s not so much the age but the acts of violence they commit.
I fully anticipate a local news story in MPLS telling us about a local pirate’s relative who is outraged they were not afforded arrest, Miranda, and a court trial.
The media is not going to know what to do with this. To bad mouth the Navy they are going to have to make their hero look bad and that is just not acceptable.
Say NO to the RANSOM of $10 Trillion to PIRATES of DC
....”Starting a new job on Monday”.......
They were honor students at East Mogadishu High......
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