Navy SEALs 3; pirates 0

[unixronin]

Captain Phillips is coming home.  The pirates who attacked his ship ... not so much.

MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) -- An American ship captain was freed unharmed Sunday in a swift firefight that killed three of the four Somali pirates who had been holding him for days in a lifeboat off the coast of Africa, the ship’s owner said.

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“The negotiations between the elders and American officials have broken down.  The reason is American officials wanted to arrest the pirates in Puntland and elders refused the arrest of the pirates,” said the commissioner, Abdi Aziz Aw Yusuf.  He said he organized initial contacts between the elders and the Americans.

Two other Somalis, one involved in the negotiations and another in contact with the pirates, also said the talks collapsed because of the U.S. insistence that the pirates be arrested and brought to justice.

We get that you didn’t want your pirates arrested.  OK, we didn’t arrest them.  Let us know how “dead” is working out for you instead.

Comments

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

I know at least one person who has already espoused simply arclighting every Somali port.

I'm really opposed to the "God will know his own" approach. As, you'd think, so would be everyone who was offended by the downing of the WTC on 11 September.

*shrug*

What can I say. I'm just a big ol' softie for innocents.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't think it's a tenable approach myself. Just sayin'.