> > Navy Seal snipers rescued an American cargo ship captain unharmed and > killed three Somali pirates in a daring operation in the Indian Ocean on > Sunday, ending a five-day standoff between United States naval forces and a > small band of brigands in a covered orange lifeboat off the Horn of Africa. > > *Acting with President Obama’s authorization* and in the belief that the > hostage, Capt. Richard Phillips, was in imminent danger of being killed by > captors armed with pistols and AK-47s, snipers on the fantail of the > destroyer Bainbridge, which was towing the lifeboat on a 100-foot line, > opened fire and picked off the three captors. > > Two of the captors had poked their heads out of a rear hatch of the > lifeboat, exposing themselves to clear shots, and the third could be seen > through a window in the bow, pointing an automatic rifle at the captain, who > was tied up inside the 18-foot lifeboat, senior Navy officials said. > > It took only three remarkable shots — one each by snipers firing from a > distance at dusk, using night-vision scopes, the officials said. Within > minutes, rescuers slid down ropes from the Bainbridge, climbed aboard the > lifeboat and found the three pirates dead. They then untied Captain > Phillips, ending the contretemps at sea that had riveted much of the world’s > attention. A fourth pirate had surrendered earlier. > --http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/world/africa/13pirates.html?hp
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