Somali pirates hijack 4 ships, take 60 hostages

AP on Yahoo ^ | 4/14/09 | Elizabeth B. Kennedy - ap

[NormsRevenge]

MOMBASA, Kenya – Somali pirates captured four ships and took more than 60 crew members hostage in a brazen hijacking spree, while the American captain freed from their grip planned to reunite with his crew and fly home Wednesday to the United States.

Capt. Richard Phillips and his 19-man crew will reunite in the Kenyan port of Mombasa on Wednesday and fly from there to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on a chartered flight, according to the shipping company Maersk...

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Pirates have vowed to retaliate for those deaths and two others slain by French forces in a separate rescue last week.

[NormsRevenge]

The next move is yours,
Barack ‘Jefferson’ Obama.

Release the hounds!

[heiss]

potus should declare that he is ordering Kill or Capture policy for US military for all pirates attacking US ships or personnel.

[ex91B10]

France and Greece are NATO countries.
An attack upon one is an attack upon all, if I remember correctly.

[Cheetahcat]

Is this a joke? You know there is danger and still sail right through what are they thinking?

[VlPu]

Paying ransom does work.
http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php?t=246971

[a fool in paradise]

Presidenting is HARD!

[DieHard the Hunter]

SEALs are going to be busy. In fact, any country with an Elite capability would be wise to get in on the act. It isn’t often that such a golden opportunity to put training into practise comes along — particularly when there is absolutely no prospect of causing a war by doing so.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Pirates have vowed to retaliate for those deaths and two others slain by French forces in a separate rescue last week...

These guys really need a reality check!....I love the smell of burning Somali’s in the morning!...

[VlPu]

Read:
Paying ransom does NOT work.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

SEALs are going to be busy.....

Lots and lots of practice on live targets.

[peace with honor]

oh yea, that will happen ( major sarc )

[chuck_the_tv_out]

there is no potus. there is only zuul.

[GeronL]

time to hold a UN meeting to discuss the pirates but know that we will never get a vote to attack

[LottieDah]

I guess they are not afraid of President Zero.

[skeeter]

I wonder if Obama consulted with his allies before taking out these pirates. /s

[NormsRevenge]

I was thinking more like holding a summit but I guess we could bother the UN if things get desperate. :-)

[NormsRevenge]

He called them out and our allies to help combat them.

The silence is deafening.

[scottinoc]

New bumper sticker: “We’re Creating More Pirates than We’re Killing”

[1035rep]

“MOMBASA, Kenya” Isn’t this where the White House occupier was born, per his grandmother?