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WE GOT SEVEN YESTERDAY
and
NINE MORE TODAY!
The US Navy is capturing Pirates in the Gulf of Aden!
WE GOT SEVEN YESTERDAY
and
NINE MORE TODAY!
Yesterday:
CAIRO — The U.S. Navy has seized seven suspected pirates in the Gulf of Aden after a merchant ship sent a distress call saying gunmen had tried to board it from a skiff.
. . . the Marshal Islands-flagged Polaris sent the call on Wednesday afternoon.
The USS Vella Gulf raced to the location where U.S. sailors boarded the skiff.
. . . the suspects were armed with AK-47s a
nd RPGs. . .
FULL STORY HERE: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,491064,00.html
WOO HOO GO NAVY
Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me! I want people to know why I look this way. I've traveled a long way, and some of the roads weren't paved.
TODAY:
The U.S. Navy apprehended nine suspected pirates early Thursday morning in the western region of the Gulf of Aden . . .
Missile cruiser USS Vella Gulf responded to a distress call from an Indian flagged motor ship named Premdivya that was being attacked by pirates.
The Vella responded by launching a helicopter that fired warning shots in the vicinity of the pirates who were traveling in a small skiff.
The pirates stopped their attempts to flee after the second shot and then members of the USS Mahan, which was acting in support of the Vella Gulf, boarded the skiff and apprehended the nine suspects, all believed to be from Somalia
FULL STORY HERE:
FOXNews.com - U.S. Navy Seizes 9 Suspected Pirates in Second Bust in Two Days - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News
Way to go Navy!
The pirates are the ones who need to be afraid, now!
Yeppers! They're a grand bunch o guys, arent they?
Great news
John (SJ)
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Isn't it?
And about time, too!
Guess nobody else was gonna do it.
The economic downturn is apparently also hitting the pirates. They had to K-mart discount one of the ships they captured.
Neal (International Association of Troublemakers)
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."- Mark Twain
Here's a real bummer of a story. It's about five days old, but I just found it . . .
FOXNews.com - Insufficient Evidence Could Force U.S. Navy to Return Suspected Pirates to Somalia - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News
WASHINGTON — Questions emerged Friday about whether the U.S. Navy can continue to hold a group of suspected pirates captured on the high seas and kept for now in floating jail cells ringed with barbed wire.
At issue are nine men, probably Somalis, seized Thursday from a small skiff in the Gulf of Aden. . . .
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. . . there may insufficient evidence to hold the men for trial . . . some or all might be returned to Somalia.
If a case can be brought, it would be among the first under a new arrangement with Kenya to take on prosecution of suspected Somali pirates.
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