Posted on 04/11/2009 7:09:58 AM PDT by Scanian
NAIROBI, April 11 (Reuters) - Pirates seized a U.S.-owned and Italian-flagged tugboat with 16 crew on Saturday in the latest hijacking in the busy Gulf of Aden waterway, a regional maritime group said.
Andrew Mwangura, of the Mombasa-based East African Seafarers' Assistance Programme, said the crew were believed to be unharmed on the tugboat, which he added was operated from the United Arab Emirates.
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If Berlusconi doesn’t authorize something swift and effective on his own, I’d be very much surprised.
and the world awaits the reaction of the sitting President... how many kidnappings will it take? how many? WWOD?????
Don’t bother BO with this trivial event! He is focused on the Easter egg hunt!
Pirates: We have 4 years to take from the land of plenty, we must work quickly and prosper.
Sure they are going after all U.S. owned ships cause they know bambi won’t do nothing!
“won’t do nothing” = double negative.
He's still sleeping off St. Louis pizza.
White House Squatter Junior Senator by Default and enemy of state.
Hmmmmm... The Italians have some very good Special Forces units that would be more than capable of knocking off a few pirates.
Could be that the Italians will rescue their tugboat all by themselves, and perhaps rescue the Americans on board, too — without Obama’s permission.
How embarrassing would that be!
0bama is a traitor and needs to be arrested for such, tried for such, and summarily dealt with according to military code...
Present! Kumbaya.
The bow was a signal to these terrorists. They have wasted no time in testing the oath of fealty 0 made to the Saudi king.
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IN HIS OWN WORDS
NOW WE KNOW WHAT A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER DOES
OBAMA, THE STOCK MARKET, AND ENERGY
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S UPBRINGING
Is it true that King Barry told the Navy to stand down and do nothing? I heard that statement on a small local radio show.
I think this gives Don Silvio a fine opportunity to make a punk out of Zer0. They all sized him up last week—they know what a weak sister they’re dealing with.
This is just advertising for selling franchises in the Caribbean courtesy of Chavez.
Hope the crew did not waste time phoning 0bama
Fixed it for you.
Bambi is in the White House, just not answering the phone at 3 AM.
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