Pirates

BenBurch said:
I'm with you, but the rules are that we must take prisoners once they stop resisting.
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Are they even resisting? Last I heard they were sailing back to the coast, and if they make it there they won't be caught.

I don't see why we can't send them to the bottom of the sea, if any survive the shelling they can be taken prisoner.
 
Newtons Bit said:
Okay. But that's a bit different than your OP, though.
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Most of these pirates are using fishing vessels. I really do not believe that anything not a shallow water vessel is not in pirate hands there. If we find them, we should sink them.

If they submit to boarding and are really fishermen, then no problem.

90+% will not submit.
 
Of course, these people are complete idiots trying to sail a private yacht in that area. Loaded with bibles no less... stupid missionaries. I bet they were killed for trying to convert them to Jesus.
 
BenBurch said:
They were FAR out to sea if I understand correctly.
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Maybe, but they were going to the Red Sea so they couldn't have been too far. The pirates are operating thousands of miles off the coast now, half the damn Indian Ocean is now pirate terriitory.

Of course, this never would have become the problem it has if no ransoms were ever paid.
 
WildCat said:
Oh, I didn't hear that news.

I hope they enjoy the rest of their lives in a US prison.

And future pirates take note: hostages are useless once you kill them.
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A better note to pirates... the Julius Ceasar approach...
Hands off Roman (US) citizens, or you die.
Not prison, die.
 
More info:
The Navy made contact and started negotiations with the pirates shortly after it began shadowing the yacht on Saturday. On Monday, two of the pirates boarded the Sterett, by now some 600 yards from the Quest, to continue talks, and stayed on board the Navy destroyer overnight.

The confrontation began mid-morning Tuesday local time, at 1 a.m. Eastern time, after a pirate fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the Sterett.

Almost immediately gunfire erupted from inside the cabin of the yacht, Admiral Fox said, and several pirates appeared at its bow with their hands in the air.

In response, the military said, a small rescue force of 15 Navy Seals in two high-speed assault craft moved to board the Quest.

According to an American military official, the Navy force boarded the Quest and then shot and killed one pirate and knifed another, killing him as well. The official said there was no gunfire from the pirates as the Navy force boarded the Quest or any time after that.

Once aboard, the American force found two pirates already dead, apparently killed by the other pirates on the Quest. The official said that it appeared to the Navy Seals on the yacht that the pirates were in disarray and that a fight had broken out among them.
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Nice knife work there by the SEAL!
 
WildCat said:
Ben, that doesn't say the pirates who killed the 4 Americans were captured. The pic and caption are from a different incident.
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Better summary;

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/world/africa/23pirates.html?src=me

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According to an American military official, the Navy force boarded the Quest and then shot and killed one pirate and knifed another, killing him as well. The official said there was no gunfire from the pirates as the Navy force boarded the Quest or any time after that.

Once aboard, the American force found two pirates already dead, apparently killed by the other pirates on the Quest. The official said that it appeared to the Navy Seals on the yacht that the pirates were in disarray and that a fight had broken out among them.

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Of the total 19 pirates involved in the initial hijacking, four were dead, and 15 — including the two who had been on the Sterett to negotiate — were being held aboard the aircraft carrier Enterprise, the military said.

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