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Pirates Take German Ship Towards Comrades Off Somalia
Radionz.co.nz ^
| 11 April 2009
| Staff
Posted on 04/10/2009 4:45:16 PM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
Pirates on Friday sailed a hijacked German freighter and its crew toward a lifeboat off Somalia where an American hostage is being held.
They are reportedly doing so an attempt to help their comrades in a standoff with the US Navy.
Four pirates are holding the American captain of a cargo ship, Richard Phillips, in a drifting lifeboat and demanding $US2 million for his release and a guarantee of their own safety.
They have been holding him since a foiled attempt on Wednesday to hijack the 17,000-tonne, Danish-owned Maersk Alabama in the Indian Ocean.
A destroyer, the USS Bainbridge, is close by.
Another group that hijacked a 20,000-tonne German container vessel, the Hansa Stavanger, a week ago is reportedly heading to the scene of the standoff.
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: piracy; pirates; somalipirates
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To: BarnacleCenturion
Aside from the hostage’s families, I also truly sympathize with the U.S. Navy. I can only imagine the frustration that our men & women must feel being embarrassed by that babbling lightweight metrosexual milquetoast in the White Hut.
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posted on
04/10/2009 5:01:28 PM PDT
by
kromike
To: Conservative4Ever
What are they doing? Making announcements about the seal hunts.
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posted on
04/10/2009 5:01:29 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: unkus
I havent seen any minute by minute coverage. Not needed any more (for a distraction). Everyone has already forgotten about Obama's dismal failure at the G20.
To: Ben Hecks
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posted on
04/10/2009 5:02:43 PM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(What did Obama's Teleprompter know, and when did it know it...)
To: Jemian; Conservative4Ever
Because the cic will not issue the order to do so... he is a muzzie after all.
LLS
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posted on
04/10/2009 5:03:20 PM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
(hussein will NEVER be my President... NEVER!!!)
To: BarnacleCenturion
I don’t understand how it is that the whole world is afraid of a bunch of mangy pirates. They should have been blasted out of the water years ago.
To: BarnacleCenturion
Please, for the love of God, tell me that the US Navy will not allow this to happen.
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posted on
04/10/2009 5:05:45 PM PDT
by
thecabal
(Hey Obama, when you gonna start sharin' the sacrifice?)
To: BarnacleCenturion
U.S. Navy Seals could, after some hours of make ready, reduce this situation to a non event avter about 15 seconds of drama and trauma. Odds are the American Captain would come home safe. Damn this surrender monkey we have in the White House.
To: LibLieSlayer
There needs to be a malfunction with all communications. It is easier to apologize for a past action than ask permission for a planned action.
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posted on
04/10/2009 5:06:16 PM PDT
by
Jemian
(PAM of JT ~~ Caligula, just like his Kenyan ancestors, is selling his countrymen into slavery.)
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To: Ben Hecks
To: Jemian
We have EMP devices, we used them in Iraq. Could also disable a ship for a brief time until they get manual control.
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posted on
04/10/2009 5:10:06 PM PDT
by
Eye of Unk
("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
To: bboop
The Captain tried to precipitate his own rescue by jumping overboard.......that should have given the Navy the chance to take out the pirates at that moment.....but they probably were caught by surprise,...too bad.
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posted on
04/10/2009 5:11:37 PM PDT
by
cookcounty
(Obama's got Bush's inheritance .......and now he wants your kids'.)
To: Jemian
To quote Patton when ordered in a radio dispatch to stop his march to Messina and allow Monty to get there first... he said, “No, that is what you THINK it says... tell them the message was garbled... ask them to resend it. That should take at least half a day”.
I pray to GOD ALMIGHTY to supply us with leaders like that once again. Amen.
LLS
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posted on
04/10/2009 5:12:31 PM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
(hussein will NEVER be my President... NEVER!!!)
To: Conservative4Ever
If there were little Christian children being held hostage they’d send in Janet Reno
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posted on
04/10/2009 5:12:33 PM PDT
by
1000 silverlings
(Everything that deceives also enchants: Plato)
To: Ben Hecks
To: cookcounty
The Captain tried to precipitate his own rescue by jumping overboard.......that should have given the Navy the chance to take out the pirates at that moment.....but they probably were caught by surprise,...too bad. They probably couldn't get the OK from the CIC fast enough to do anything... he was busy bowling or something.
To: fso301
Easy fix. The US Navy should take one of their cargo ships, paint it like the one above, but.........have it loaded for bear and take out the priates. A sleeper if you wish.
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posted on
04/10/2009 5:13:24 PM PDT
by
RC2
To: Eye of Unk
Wait a minute while I do a search and learn what EMP devices are.
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posted on
04/10/2009 5:14:06 PM PDT
by
Jemian
(PAM of JT ~~ Caligula, just like his Kenyan ancestors, is selling his countrymen into slavery.)
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