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Official: US sea captain faced imminent danger
Associated Press ^
| April 12, 2009
| LARA JAKES
Posted on 04/12/2009 1:17:30 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON (AP) - The American sea captain held hostage by Somali pirates was in "imminent danger" of being killed by his captors before U.S. Special Operations forces fatally shot them, a U.S. military official said.
The hostage, Richard Phillips, was not hurt in the several minutes of gunfire off the Somali coast Sunday. Phillips was safely transported to a Navy warship nearby.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hostages; maritime; richardphillips; somalipirates; usnavy
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To: Free ThinkerNY
“The hostage, Richard Phillips, was not hurt in the several minutes of gunfire off the Somali coast Sunday. Phillips was safely transported to a Navy warship nearby.”
My bet is pop pop pop and three dead pirates.
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posted on
04/12/2009 1:18:22 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Bow down to me. I am TOTUS.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
To: EQAndyBuzz
Yeah how bullet proof is a lifeboat that 3 pirates can survive more than 15 seconds? I call BS. They are trying to spin it like the pirates went out in glorious martyrdom.
POP POP POP
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posted on
04/12/2009 1:21:57 PM PDT
by
omega4179
(boycott government run entities)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Who cares even if he weren’t in “imminent danger”?!
I don’t care if they were sipping tea and reading the Sunday comics these terrorists got what they deserved.
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posted on
04/12/2009 1:22:08 PM PDT
by
mkcc30
("Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.")
To: EQAndyBuzz
“Why’d you shoot him 44 times?”
“Ran out of ammunition.”
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posted on
04/12/2009 1:22:48 PM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(The death cult wants death, the Israelis want peace. I, for one, see only one solution.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
The American sea captain held hostage by Somali pirates was in "imminent danger" of being killed by his captors before U.S. Special Operations forces fatally shot them, a U.S. military official said. Obviously, there's more to come on this story. Can't wait to hear it.
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posted on
04/12/2009 1:23:02 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Listen to the guy from NPR question Gortney . That is where we ALL face imminent danger . What an A-hole !!
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posted on
04/12/2009 1:24:57 PM PDT
by
Renegade
(You go tell my buddies)
To: Free ThinkerNY
And the captain’s family sent him a message that they are saving a chocolate Easter Egg for him and it will be ready for him when he gets home, so long as his son doesn’t eat it first! LOL!
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
04/12/2009 1:27:20 PM PDT
by
mojitojoe
( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder & America is dying.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
I’m watching the Pentagon press conference on FoxNews.
Some reporters questioned whether the captain’s life was ever in danger!
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posted on
04/12/2009 1:27:42 PM PDT
by
LibFreeOrDie
(Obama promised a gold mine, but he will give us the shaft.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
WHat we need is a picture from “Apocalypse Now” where Robert Duvall is saying “I love the smell of dead pirates in the morning”
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posted on
04/12/2009 1:27:55 PM PDT
by
NY Attitude
(You are responsible for your own safety until the arrival of law enforcement officers)
To: Renegade
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posted on
04/12/2009 1:28:56 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Iraq trip: Obama should have bowed to the troops - not to King Abdullah.)
To: mojitojoe
This is great news - more than one post is just fine with me.
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posted on
04/12/2009 1:29:30 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Iraq trip: Obama should have bowed to the troops - not to King Abdullah.)
To: omega4179
“Yeah how bullet proof is a lifeboat that 3 pirates can survive more than 15 seconds? I call BS.”
Some initial reports have the captain jumping off the lifeboat and the seals shooting the pirates as they came to the doorway of the lifeboat to shoot at him. Too early to tell for sure what happened but it doesn’t sound like an assault on the lifeboat.
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posted on
04/12/2009 1:30:03 PM PDT
by
yazoo
(was)
To: LibFreeOrDie
Pirates holding a guy against his will with guns in a place he doesn’t want to be???? I’d say thats danger. Maybe we ought to let those reporters get kidnapped in a similar fashion, not knowing the outcome, and then ask them if they felt it was a dangerous situation.
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posted on
04/12/2009 1:30:53 PM PDT
by
FreeSouthernAmerican
(All we ask is to be let alone----Jefferson Davis)
To: Free ThinkerNY
I note that the US Boxer was there.
I wonder when that one arrived.
That would be the only ship in the area with real SEAL capabilites and logistics.
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posted on
04/12/2009 1:31:04 PM PDT
by
bill1952
(Power is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Several minutes of gunfire my butt... what do they think it is, a Arab wedding celebration?
To: Windflier
I think this was the high point: "(American) forces shot the pirates to death."
Spin it as they will, that phrase will always be the high point of this episode.
To: EQAndyBuzz
The American sea captain held hostage by Somali pirates was in "imminent danger" of being killed by his captors...This doesn't sound like a sound business practice for something that has been deemed a "business model."
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posted on
04/12/2009 1:32:36 PM PDT
by
Jagdgewehr
(One sword, at least, thy rights shall guard. One faithful harp shall praise thee.)
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