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Four Americans Killed on Yacht Hijacked by Somali Pirates (Breaking on FoxNews.com)
FOXnews.com ^ | February 22, 2011 | Fox News Staff

Posted on 02/22/2011 7:36:09 AM PST by NCDragon

DEVELOPING STORY: Four Americans aboard a yacht hijacked by Somali pirates have been killed, Fox News has confirmed. U.S. forces responded to gunfire aboard the yacht Quest at approximately 1 a.m. Tuesday, but discovered all four hostages had been shot by their captors. Despite attempts to save their lives, all four hostages died of their wounds. “We express our deepest condolences for the innocent lives callously lost aboard the Quest,” said Gen. James N. Mattis, U.S. Central Command Commander in a news release. Two pirates died during the confrontation and 13 were captured and detained, along with two pirates already in custody. U.S. forces also found the remains of two other pirates already dead aboard the vessel and believe a total of 19 pirates were involved in the hijacking. The yacht Quest was hijacked on Friday off the coast of Oman and U.S. forces had been closely monitoring the vessel.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: somalipirates
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To: denydenydeny
13 “detained”...To be brought back here for miilion dollar civilian trials with high-priced defense attorneys, and then to be placed in the US prison system at a taxpayer cost of $40-50K a year each.

We have lost our minds. Our country is being run by lunatics.

If they're convicted, they'll find life in a federal prison to be far better than Somalia.

21 posted on 02/22/2011 7:48:50 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: DBrow

Surely you know that C-in-C Maobama would never permit such a thing. He is probably working right now on his apology to the Somali innocents.


22 posted on 02/22/2011 7:49:02 AM PST by RushLake (Liberalism/Progressivism--Domestic terrorism financed by your tax dollars.)
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To: DBrow

Why stop with the ships?


23 posted on 02/22/2011 7:49:44 AM PST by Shane (When Injustice Becomes Law, RESISTANCE Becomes DUTY.----T.Jefferson)
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To: 9422WMR
What in the hell were those four doing in that area anyway?
You go play in deaths backyard, you take your chances......

Distributing Bibles.

It's difficult imagining anything more dangerous in an islamist country/area.

24 posted on 02/22/2011 7:50:46 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 763 of our national holiday from reality. - It's almost 3 AM)
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To: troy McClure
DROP MOABS ON EVERY ONE IN SOMAILI

Yep, if the Jeeps don't get them, the mountain bikes will.


25 posted on 02/22/2011 7:50:58 AM PST by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
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To: NCDragon

You know, sometimes I’m tempted to think that we would be doing the world a favour if we just glassed the entirety of Somalia with large-warhead nukes, and were done with it.


26 posted on 02/22/2011 7:51:45 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (When evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will believe in abject nonsense.)
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To: Disgusted in Texas

We should be so lucky. We’ll probably just let them all go with a slap on the wrist. UN rules, donchaknow.


27 posted on 02/22/2011 7:52:03 AM PST by battletank
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To: NCDragon
The world needs the fear of God again when coming against the U.S. Turn these so called pirates into shark food.
Patrol the waters with ships and let them hunt. Stop all foreign aid. Tell the rest of the world, “screw you.” It's time for America to stand up and protect the American way of life.Photobucket
28 posted on 02/22/2011 7:52:15 AM PST by baddog 219
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To: NCDragon

Color me skeptical and cynical, but I’m guessing that nobody will ever be told the exact circumstances of this incident for years — if at all.


29 posted on 02/22/2011 7:53:59 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: NCDragon

Our enemies do not fear us.

ALLEN WEST 2012


30 posted on 02/22/2011 7:54:14 AM PST by TsonicTsunami08
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To: NCDragon

Not really a big surprise is it?

*sigh*

Shouldn’t be vacationing in a place like that anyways


31 posted on 02/22/2011 7:54:18 AM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: digger48

You know the answer to that.


32 posted on 02/22/2011 7:54:25 AM PST by boomop1
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To: 9422WMR

“What in the hell were those four doing in that area anyway?
You go play in deaths backyard, you take your chances......”

I too do not honestly understand their lack of common sense (brains).

They are like those who continue to travel to Mexico in spite of all the warnings…Or: “No, don’t put you hand on that hot stove” and they do it anyway.

One article I read is that they were distributing Bibles or something religious.

Distributing religious things does not immune anybody from anything...only good sense saves lives.


33 posted on 02/22/2011 7:54:31 AM PST by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: ozark hilljilly
Missionaries go to a lot of dangerous places.

Right. That was something that needed to be said.

34 posted on 02/22/2011 7:55:03 AM PST by Leaning Right (Why am I carrying this lantern, you ask. I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: 9422WMR
I'm hoping my Seahawks play the Raiders in Oakland this coming season. My plan is to score some tickets right in the middle of the "Black Hole", where along with my wife and kids, I can enjoy the game while wearing our Seahawk jerseys. Photobucket
35 posted on 02/22/2011 7:55:03 AM PST by Ronald_Magnus
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To: Fiji Hill

That’s right.....kidnapping for these scumbags is a win/win.


36 posted on 02/22/2011 7:55:18 AM PST by liberalh8ter
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To: Shane

“Why stop with the ships?”

Sometimes you show more power through restraint.


37 posted on 02/22/2011 7:55:42 AM PST by DBrow
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To: MichaelP

4 Americans murdered and now we have 13 animals that will be given rights of the dead Americans.
Disgusting


38 posted on 02/22/2011 7:56:23 AM PST by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways Guero >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona.....)
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To: ClearCase_guy
US forces then sank the yacht and strafed the water -- didn't they?

Didn't they???

Nope, per Fox they boarded and recaptured the yacht. The Somalis shot the hated evangelical hostages.

In many jurisdictions anyone involved in a criminal activity that results in a death is just as guilty of murder as the trigger man.

39 posted on 02/22/2011 7:56:27 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 763 of our national holiday from reality. - It's almost 3 AM)
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obama will be issuing an apology to the somali pirates for getting blood on their dirty nightshirts...then offer financial aid if they promise not to do it again....


40 posted on 02/22/2011 7:57:24 AM PST by raygunfan
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