[ScreamingFist]

One of the things that I’ve been reading about in hostage situations, and it covers a wide range of hostage events (not just pirates in Somalia), is that it was found out that chances are greatly improved for the hostages lives, if time is taken to have someone talking and negotiating with the hostage takers even if you are going to storm them at a later time.

Yes it's called the Stockholm Syndrome, and is a basic class for anyone that works in law enforcement, corrections or the military.....I'm not sure where you are trying to go here Star...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

[Star Traveler]

Well..., not going anywhere in particular other than to say that the military seems to have been following standard operating procedures of patience, negotiating and gaining the pirates trust in order to set up a good operation..., which they did.

And that’s why we had a successful outcome...