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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“If we start treating the open sea like some pirate’s personal fiefdom and condemning Americans who sail the open sea as being stupid and wrong, think of what freedoms we give up”
Exactly. Be my guest and lead the way.
What about all the tankers and other commercial traffic the pirates have captured?
Sorry, if you’re an American citizen, they should be afraid to touch you.
Who said stop there? That would be in the nature of a shot across the bow. If it stops them, well and good. If not, still plenty of shot in the shot locker.
Now we’ll make sure these pirates are advised of their rights and we’ll pay for legal representation and to top it off they’ll probably be brought back to NY to be tried in federal court. We’re in the “twilight zone” folks. Why don’t we just declare war on these vermin and exterminate them?
Its time to troll for sharks. They have plenty of bait.
And, Columbia University students and faculity applaude.
OR the Navy began a rescue effort, the pirates became alarmed and killed the hostages as threatened, knowing that whoever survived the rescue attempt would also survive the American legal system.
All detained need to be shot.
Even the Obama administration should realize there is a time and place to act and protect our nations interests.
I’m sure there will be a line of blood sucker attorneys ready to defend those poor boys when they get to US civilian court.
Maybe they were idiot thrill seekers? Doesn’t mean they deserve to be hijack, (probably) tortured, and killed.
It’s like blaming a crying child for the ‘parent’ beating the hell out of them.
Or blaming a rape victim because they were in the wrong part of town.
Blame the murdering scum who did the crime - not the victims.
“13 were captured and detained,”
Now they get to come to America, get scumbag defense attorneys appointed and live off the US taxpayers with 3 hots and a cot.
They were avid yachtspeople, belonged to a yacht club, loved adventure, one was a skilled skipper, they were churchy.....and the global trip was more the fulfillment of a dream than anything else.
Distributing the Bibles was a very nice touch in their travels.
Leni
Welcome to the Gumby States of America...no backbone!
Why are we capturing these terrorists, they should have simply been shot on site, period.
Our country is being run by lunatics.
Don’t forget the lunatics that were so kind and thoughtful to help the other lunatics gain access to the sacred halls of government and the white house. We owe them all, something worthy of such kindness.
I visited Berbera in the 1980s. Sat with a Chief as we let flies crawl over our face...If he could do it...I could do it.
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