Black People : The truth about Somali Pirates

[Zim]

I salute the Somali Pirates.

 

[cherryblossom]

4 Americans killed by Somali pirates

Christina Hoag and George Tibbits
Associated Press

.—An adventurous quartet of retired yacht enthusiasts from California and Washington state were living their dreams, friends say, sailing around the world until they were shot and killed by Somali pirates on Tuesday.

The yacht’s owners, Jean and Scott Adam of Marina del Rey near Los Angeles, along with Bob Riggle and Phyllis Macay of Seattle were taken hostage on Friday several hundred kilometres south of Oman. U.S. naval forces trailing the captured yacht with four warships quickly boarded the vessel after hearing the gunfire Tuesday, but the Americans died of their wounds. Two pirates were killed and 13 captured.

Some of the victims were still alive when they were found by the U.S. team and were given first aid, but all four died, said Vice-Adm. Mark Fox, the commander of U.S. naval forces in the region.

A flotilla of U.S. naval vessels had been shadowing the yacht, known as the Quest, for three days and conducted negotiations over the weekend in an effort to free the two couples as the yacht made its way south toward Somalia, said Lt.-Col. Mike Lawhorn, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, which oversees U.S. anti-piracy operations in the Indian Ocean.

There were signs of divisions among the 19 pirates during the hostage standoff, U.S. officers said. On Monday, two of them came aboard one of the navy vessels, the USS Sterett, for face-to-face negotiations and did not return to the yacht.....


...>>>>http://www.thestar.com/news/world/pirates/article/942802--4-americans-killed-by-somali-pirates?bn=1

 

[Chevron Dove]

4 Americans killed by Somali pirates

Christina Hoag and George Tibbits
Associated Press

.—An adventurous quartet of retired yacht enthusiasts from California and Washington state were living their dreams, friends say, sailing around the world until they were shot and killed by Somali pirates on Tuesday.

The yacht’s owners, Jean and Scott Adam of Marina del Rey near Los Angeles, along with Bob Riggle and Phyllis Macay of Seattle were taken hostage on Friday several hundred kilometres south of Oman. U.S. naval forces trailing the captured yacht with four warships quickly boarded the vessel after hearing the gunfire Tuesday, but the Americans died of their wounds. Two pirates were killed and 13 captured.

Some of the victims were still alive when they were found by the U.S. team and were given first aid, but all four died, said Vice-Adm. Mark Fox, the commander of U.S. naval forces in the region.

A flotilla of U.S. naval vessels had been shadowing the yacht, known as the Quest, for three days and conducted negotiations over the weekend in an effort to free the two couples as the yacht made its way south toward Somalia, said Lt.-Col. Mike Lawhorn, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, which oversees U.S. anti-piracy operations in the Indian Ocean.

There were signs of divisions among the 19 pirates during the hostage standoff, U.S. officers said. On Monday, two of them came aboard one of the navy vessels, the USS Sterett, for face-to-face negotiations and did not return to the yacht.....


...>>>>http://www.thestar.com/news/world/pirates/article/942802--4-americans-killed-by-somali-pirates?bn=1

This is sad.

What in the world gives these white people so much confidence that they can go vacation over there and have the military give them an escort to go into those African areas? Now because of their boldness, they are dead but they have also brought so much more pain and sufferings on the people of Somalia. America has gotten 15 of the pirates and holding them captive and have killed the other four because of these luxury vacationers...

Those Somalians have families and people they care about too.

Something just does not seem right here.

 

[mydestiny]

Some news reports are saying they were with a group of other yacht owners, sailing the sea when they decided to break off from the group. When the separated from their other friends is when the "pirates" came around. I feel bad that they lost their lives, but they should not have been so ignorant.

 

[acitizen]

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