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Report: Pirates were out of ammo, sought to trade captain
McClatchy ^ | 4/13/09 | Nancy A. Youssef and Shashank Bengali

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 ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ammo; captain; pirates; report; somalipirates
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To: Nachum
"Misunderstood teens who just needed some help to save them from a life of poverty."

When interviewed at his mud hut, one of their neighbors said: "They were quiet, loving boys, who never caused trouble in the village. The downturn in the economy has stressed many families here. I'm sure they meant no harm."

41 posted on 04/13/2009 2:14:36 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Nachum

I’m still getting over the 3 kill shots with only 3 bullets from a bobbing boat to perps in a bobbing boat, at night.


42 posted on 04/13/2009 2:15:26 PM PDT by wolfcreek ("unnamed "right-wing extremist")
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To: Nachum

Here we go... Those brutish SEALS murdered innocent Somalis with empty guns. It was inevitable.


43 posted on 04/13/2009 2:16:04 PM PDT by Reaganesque
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To: Nachum
Youssef and Bengali

1. Who are they, real reporters or local stringers, like the Iraqis who work with Al Qaeda?

2. Always assume a gun is loaded, especially if it is aimed at a person. How would the SEALS know the bad guys were out of ammo, if indeed they were?

3. If all these poor wayward yoots wanted to do was save their lives, they could have done that very easily by surrendering. Indeed if they really were out of ammo, that was the only thing that would save their lives.

4. Criminals who are surrounded by the good guys with overwhelming firepower and who are out of fuel, food and ammo, have no right to demand to be let go free. And pointing a gun at a hostage in a threatening way in the face of all that, especially if it isn't loaded (which I don't believe) is just proof for the umpteenth time that criminals are really, really stupid people. About the the only group that can make criminals look smart are reporters like these clowns.

44 posted on 04/13/2009 2:17:35 PM PDT by colorado tanker (What do you mean you can't put a teleprompter on a Easter egg? What do I say to the kids?)
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To: Nachum; norwaypinesavage

They were “untrained youth”- I wonder if they were pirate school dropouts?


45 posted on 04/13/2009 2:20:05 PM PDT by philled (This 'stimulus money' will stimulate just as 'protection money' protects. -- Rei Shinozuka)
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To: Nachum

The one they captured ought to be hanged from the yard arm.


46 posted on 04/13/2009 2:28:33 PM PDT by JamesP81 (When Obama signed an order providing tax dollars to murder children, he stopped being my president)
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"I wonder if they were pirate school dropouts?"

Probably Madrassa dropouts, but I guess that's the same.

47 posted on 04/13/2009 2:28:55 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Global Warming Theory is extremely robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it)
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To: Nachum

Dateline Kenya. Gosh, I bet it’s the whole troof that our mean military killed unarmed people in a lifeboat when all they were doing was trying to save the life of an American man they found floating in the water.


48 posted on 04/13/2009 2:29:59 PM PDT by CodeToad (Anyone wanting the government to take over medical care should stand in line at the post office)
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To: Nachum

Where is the outcry?

1. Obama acted unilaterally in making the decision to go to war with Somalia.

2. He directed the military to Murder Somali teenage citizens who were negotiating in good faith for the release of their captive U.S. Merchant Captain.

3. The Somalis were not granted habeus Corpus.

4. Obama has made America less safe because now all of the Somali Pirates are saying they will kill Americans on sight.

5. Obama did not follow the path of the Europeans who have ((most of the time) successfully negotiated (Talked to the enemy)the release of other hijacked ships and crews.

6. Obama now has a captured Somali citizen who is being detained against our Constitution, the Geneva Convention and is most likely being severely interrogated. Has the military allowed the Red Cross in to verify this pirates status?


49 posted on 04/13/2009 2:31:17 PM PDT by Typical_Whitey (Obama has made US sitting ducks.)
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The poor poor dears.

I don't think these 'poor poor dears' were the brightest lights in the chandelier.

50 posted on 04/13/2009 2:32:55 PM PDT by BluH2o
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To: norwaypinesavage

I wouldn’t be surprised if Obama reconsiders the whole voucher issue- at least for Somalia “youth”.


51 posted on 04/13/2009 2:33:22 PM PDT by philled (This 'stimulus money' will stimulate just as 'protection money' protects. -- Rei Shinozuka)
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Oh, we knew this was coming, didn’t we?

“Their little boat was surrounded,” Farah said by phone from Haradheere. “We couldn’t go to help them, and for that we are sorry.”

And, they didn’t have any ammo left.

Poor dears. They were murdered in cold blood. /s


52 posted on 04/13/2009 2:34:35 PM PDT by ataDude (My incredulity has already turned into disillusionment and is now turning into hatred.)
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To: Nachum
Then those mean, horrible, nasty Navy Seals killed them and took their dog too.

God bless the SEALs and their compassion for that dog. ;-)

53 posted on 04/13/2009 2:37:44 PM PDT by Michael Barnes
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"Terrorist pirates out of ammo."

Somebody cue Ted Knight: "Ha, ha, ha"

54 posted on 04/13/2009 2:38:30 PM PDT by Jmouse007 (tot)
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To: Nachum

As Barretta always said, “Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.”

And that’s the name of that story.


55 posted on 04/13/2009 2:41:51 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: mass55th

LOL!


56 posted on 04/13/2009 2:49:42 PM PDT by riverdawg
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To: Nachum

Please begin using the Search feature.


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