Posted on 04/11/2009 1:16:29 PM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Pirates off the eastern coast of Africa fired on U.S. sailors Saturday as they tried to reach the lifeboat where an American captain is being held, a U.S. official familiar with the situation told CNN.
The gunfire forced the sailors, who did not return fire, to turn back, the official said.
The incident took place some 12 hours ago as the guided missile destroyer USS Bainbridge sent a small team toward the lifeboat, said the official.
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Where are the snipers?
Do we now allow terrorists to fire on the U.S. military with no return fire?
WTH is going on? Aren’t their any snipers to off these thugs?
I wonder how they’re going to deliver their mildly tersely worded letter?
Send the seals in, blow the bottom of the life boat out and pick up the captn.
Let the sharks have the scum remaining.
They are not *censored*
Thanks Obama.
This just keeps getting better and better. /s
Good grief.
Pirates and North Korea expose technology hoaxes.
Pirates also expose the “war on terror” hoax and why the “totally disarm citizens” agenda now has the highest priority among all agendas.
Similar to my thought when the capt. tried to escape. Swimmers loitering under the boat could have "neutralized" the pirates when the capt went into the drink.
Perhaps that is naive, not knowing fully what is involved in "loitering" swimmers below.
The Sailors were trying to serve a UN Resolution on the pirates for the release of the Captain.
It looks like it is time for Obama to use the big guns. Someone needs to call the UN at once. We need a RESOLUTION and we need it fast. If that doesn’t work then we will use SANCTIONS. Pirates just hate resolutions and sanctions. It’s like the kiss of death to them
used to be a sniper and believe me I’d be mroe than happy to go if called on
still on the other hand I would never get called on as obama won’t let us shoot back or even shoot, while the french are storming the pirates and saving their people we just sit there and watch
Blackbeard would have loved the seas of today.
Canadian ship comes up and see pirates heading to a ship, they send a helicopter up and drop a banner saying stop.
pirates wave to helicopter and head elsewhere
yea that is great, so they poet the pirates go so hit another ship
pathetic
Since when DO WE NOT RETURN FIRE?????
argh
What the _____? over
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