See if you can find WHERE the stage-managed MSM decides to tell you this, readers!!!
"In an instant, one man's ordeal at sea ended" by Peter Schworm and Brian Ballou, Globe Staff | April 14, 2009
Sharpshooters positioned on the stern of a Navy destroyer buffeted by choppy seas needed just three simultaneous shots to kill three Somali pirates holding a cargo ship captain 100 feet away, a Navy commander said yesterday.
Vice Admiral William E. Gortney, providing vivid new details about Sunday's dramatic evening rescue, said the snipers were ordered to fire after a pirate was seen holding an assault rifle to the back of Richard Phillips, a 53-year-old from Underhill, Vt., who had been held hostage for five days in a lifeboat in the pirate-infested waters off Somalia....
In Kenya, Shane Murphy, the chief officer of the Maersk Alabama, made an emotional appeal to President Obama to take aggressive action against the growing threat of piracy. "America has to be at the forefront of this," Murphy, who lives in Seekonk, said during a brief news conference in Mombasa. "It's time for us to step up and put an end to this crisis. It's a crisis, wake up."
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The commander of the USS Bainbridge, a naval destroyer that first responded to the kidnapping, believed Phillips was in "imminent danger" when he ordered the shooting, Gortney said yesterday in a conference call from Bahrain. In a split-second decision, the snipers were given the go-ahead to open fire when two other hostage-takers were spotted "with their heads and shoulders exposed," said Gortney, commander of US Naval Forces Central Command.
"The captain's life was in immediate danger," he said. Phillips, whose hands were bound at the time of the rescue, was unharmed when Navy SEALS reached the lifeboat and freed him, Gortney said. The military had received "very clear guidance and authority" from the White House to use deadly force if they believed Phillips's life was in danger, he said.
Shortly before the rescue, the pirates had fired a tracer bullet at the destroyer, and they had become increasingly agitated by the rough waters and protracted crisis. A fourth pirate had surrendered earlier Sunday and is in US custody. A spokesman for the Justice Department said prosecutors would review the evidence to determine whether the pirate will face charges in the United States. The pirate, who had been wounded in the hijacking attempt and required medical attention, surrendered by jumping into a small craft bringing food and water to the lifeboat. Early reports yesterday that he was negotiating on behalf of the other pirates were apparently incorrect.
WTF, MSM?
The Navy SEALs who shot the pirates were picked up by the Bainbridge after parachuting from an aircraft into the sea. The attackers had agreed to let the Navy vessel attach a 82-foot towline to bring the out-of-fuel lifeboat to calmer waters. The lifeboat, some 300 miles from shore at the outset, had drifted within 20 miles of land at the time of the rescue, the Navy said.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, speaking at the Marine Corps War College yesterday, called the rescue operation "textbook." "They were patient. They got the right people and the right equipment in place, and then did what they do," he said....
Even though "It rarely happens like it did with the rescue of Captain Phillips," said Tom Wilkerson, a retired Marine Corps major general and president of the US Naval Institute in Annapolis, Md., referring to the Navy SEALs raid that freed Phillips, of Vermont, on Sunday"
Highlighting the lawlessness in Somalia, assailants fired mortars at an airplane carrying US Representative Donald Payne of New Jersey as it took off from the Mogadishu International Airport. The plane took off safely....
Gee, the Globe sure kept that quiet.
The lifeboat... ran out of gas....--more--"
What is worse is the Globe editorial!
Somali Pirates: Fighting Against Nuclear Waste and over-fishing?
Untold Stories about Somalia Pirates - European ships dump Nuclear Waste into Somalia Ocean
"Not just a pirate movie
.... The pirate trade grew from two sources: economic desperation and the anger of Somalis at foreign - mostly European - fishing trawlers taking $300 million per year worth of tuna, shrimp, and lobster out of Somali waters. That anger only grew when the tsunami of 2005 washed leaking barrels of radioactive materials and other hazardous waste onto Somali shores, sickening the locals. To Somalis, it didn't matter that shady European firms may have paid off a warlord to dump the waste. The problem was that Europeans were exploiting Somalia's inability to protect its waters and its people....
What, they took Summers' advice?
"On December 12, 1991, while serving as chief economist for the World Bank, Summers authored a private memo arguing that the bank should actively encourage the dumping of toxic waste in developing countries, particularly "under populated countries in Africa," which Summers described as "UNDER-polluted."
The only long-term remedy will come through a stable government and economic development that can relieve Somalia's crushing poverty. There is no magic formula for achieving that objective. But it will only be more difficult to achieve if foreign forces start raiding the pirate dens on shore.
Oh, I AGREE GLOBE!!! I don't want any more Somalis killed over a lie!
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Also see: The Boston Globe Knows About "Al-CIA-Duh"
The Boston Globe Knows the Truth About Iran
Makes their coverage of everything even worse knowing that, right, readers?
No wonder they are losing a million-six a week!
