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Pirates vow revenge after rescue mission
News.Com.Au ^ | April 13, 2009 | Abdiqani Hassan

Posted on 04/12/2009 8:35:13 PM PDT by Melissa 24

SOMALI pirates have threatened revenge after two separate hostage-rescue raids by foreign forces killed at least five comrades, raising fears of future bloodshed on the high seas. The latest raid by US forces this morning saved American hostage Capt Richard Phillips. Three pirates were killed and one was taken captive, the US Navy said.

That rescue mission and one by France last week have upped the stakes in shipping lanes off the anarchic Horn of Africa nation where pirate gangs have defied foreign naval patrols.

"The French and the Americans will regret starting this killing. We do not kill, but take only ransom. We shall do something to anyone we see as French or American from now," Hussein, a pirate, told Reuters by satellite phone.

"We cannot know how or whether our friends on the lifeboat died, but this will not stop us from hijacking," he said.

Sea gangs generally treat their captives well, hoping to fetch top dollar in ransoms. The worst violence has been an occasional beating.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: navy; notbreakingnews; pirates; somalian; somalipirates
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To: Melissa 24
pirates
21 posted on 04/12/2009 8:55:02 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: Melissa 24

OK, time to blow the hell out of their bases now.


22 posted on 04/12/2009 8:55:49 PM PDT by headstamp 2 ("Government is a disease masquerading as it's own cure")
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To: Melissa 24
Three pirates were killed and one was taken captive, the US Navy said.

Go Navy!

23 posted on 04/12/2009 8:56:11 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Melissa 24

They could start by blowing the brains of the Filipinos. Since they have 250 or of the hostages, why not?


24 posted on 04/12/2009 8:56:43 PM PDT by fooman (Get real with Kim Jung Mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: Melissa 24

These are not terrorists. They are “man-caused disaster makers” per the new lingo from the new global order direct from the Whtie House - at least that is what the czar of national security Ms. Justlike Napoleon says. Time to brush up on the lingo so’s you can be with it.


25 posted on 04/12/2009 8:57:37 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Melissa 24

Don’t hold your breath waiting for Muslims to follow through on vague threats.


26 posted on 04/12/2009 8:58:01 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: headstamp 2

yep, a little muslim plinkin’ as I call it.


27 posted on 04/12/2009 8:58:49 PM PDT by bobby.223
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To: Melissa 24

Start deporting all of them from MN, CO ,WA. The Sonali tribes are all over Denver airport. I have seen them in other airports. Cut off their welfare and deport them.


28 posted on 04/12/2009 9:02:10 PM PDT by Frantzie (Boycott GE - they own NBC, MSNBC, CNBC & Universal. Boycott Disney - they own ABC)
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To: truemiester

ROTFLMAO!

I shall repeat this to many people.

Perfect.


29 posted on 04/12/2009 9:03:13 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: Melissa 24

Set up some ships as floating honeytraps and send them into harms way.

When the pirates approach uncover the big stuff and blow them out of the water.


30 posted on 04/12/2009 9:04:26 PM PDT by 5by5
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To: Melissa 24

“I’ll bite your legs off!”


31 posted on 04/12/2009 9:04:59 PM PDT by mlo
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To: fooman

Does it make me crazy that I keep having fantasies about unleashing our arsenal on them and then giving specific orders to the troops to kill all the Somalis they find until the neighboring governnments swear up and down that they will get their criminal elements together(q)


32 posted on 04/12/2009 9:05:12 PM PDT by Niuhuru (Fine, here's my gun, but let me give you the bullets first. I'll send them to you through the barrel)
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To: ozarkgirl

So did we offend the sensibilites of the pirates?

Was he shocked that our Navy Seals took action?

Does he really feel he has the “moral high ground” because their piracy is done for ransom, and not to kill an enemy?

Does he miss his three lap dog boys that we killed?


33 posted on 04/12/2009 9:06:15 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Melissa 24
It looks like we've got us a war, A gut-busting, mother loving Navy War.

OK, OK they're just scumbag murdering cockroaches playing pirate - but dang I have been waiting along time to repeat that line.

34 posted on 04/12/2009 9:06:53 PM PDT by NavyCanDo (Party like its 1773)
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To: 5by5

I like the way you think.


35 posted on 04/12/2009 9:07:07 PM PDT by manic4organic (We Are S0 Screwed)
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To: ozarkgirl
We shall do something to anyone we see as French or American

We see as French or American?! Not really Americans, just seen as such..?
36 posted on 04/12/2009 9:08:58 PM PDT by alecqss
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To: 5by5
Set up some ships as floating honeytraps and send them into harms way. When the pirates approach uncover the big stuff and blow them out of the water.

One 50 cal and a trained gunman on the back of the boat could probably sink most of this filth.

37 posted on 04/12/2009 9:09:43 PM PDT by Dosa26
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To: Melissa 24

Pirates of the Indian Ocean
Dead Man's Chest


38 posted on 04/12/2009 9:12:58 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler ("Mr. President, I support you but not your mission. I'm showing my patriotism through dissent.")
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To: FlyingEagle
They are “man-caused disaster makers”

Wrong! They are man-caused disaster area persons of interest.
39 posted on 04/12/2009 9:14:08 PM PDT by alecqss
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To: mlo

“It’s merely a flesh wound...”


40 posted on 04/12/2009 9:14:35 PM PDT by prismsinc (A.K.A. "The Terminator"!)
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