dude... they make it sound soo epic! -- night-vision goggles at sundown... two of the captors poked their heads up, the third through a window while pointing a rifle at the captain --- sounds directly like a scene from a bond flick.
Thats AWESOME! ~Jay On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Lance McCulley <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > > AHHH YEAH SUCKAS! > > -Lance > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Politically Opinionated Outspoken People Expounding Religion" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pooper?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
