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American Captain Freed

By SusanUnPC on April 12, 2009 at 1:43 PM in Current Affairs

Breaking News via CNN: “U.S. ship captain held by pirates off Somalia, has been freed, senior U.S. official says. Three of four pirates killed.” (Surely all credit goes to our exceptional military.)


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  • I’m a Linda too

    Yeah!

  • Ellen D

    Yay!
    Waiting for Larry J.’s analysis later.

    • http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

      Me too! LARRY, WRITE!

  • HARP

    The official said Capt. Richard Phillips is uninjured and in good condition, and that three of the four pirates were killed. The fourth pirate is in custody. Phillips was taken aboard the USS Bainbridge, a nearby naval warship.

    Earlier Sunday afternoon Maersk Line Limited, owner of the Maersk Alabama, said the U.S. Navy informed the company that it had sighted Phillips in a lifeboat where pirates are holding him.

    Phillips was spotted another time earlier in the day, the Navy said.

    A man who answered the door at Phillips’ home in Underhill, Vermont, told CNN’s Stephanie Elam that the family has known the news for hours. He said details would have to come from Virginia, apparently referring to the home base of Maersk Line Limited, based in Norfolk, which owns the ship.

    http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/12/somalia.pirates/index.html

    • I’m a Linda too

      I am so happy they finally acted and he was still alive.

      …they were getting pretty close to land and that would have been it.

      Yeah. I’m so happy the family has the good Capt returned ALIVE.

      Now, they need to get that tugboat from yesterday.

      Things should be a bit easier now that the Pirates know 3 or 4 were killed in this effort.

      • I’m a Linda too

        s/b 3 OF 4

  • pacificisland

    Capt. Phillips jumped overboard again and that’s when the Navy Seals moved in to rescue him. What a brave man! The Navy Seals are the best.

    What a great Easter blessing for his family.

    • http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

      Where did you hear that?

      • pacificisland

        All over the news – on Fox, CNN.

        • surreal

          is not…it just hit the tabloid news (FOX and CNN) in the last hour.

          • beebop

            tabloid? uh huh … like MSNBC ….????? You are too demented to know truth when you hear it!

      • I’m a Linda too

        “An unnamed US official told the Associated Press that Capt Phillips was freed in what appeared to be a swift firefight.”

        …and if 3 of 4 were killed, I’d say that fits.

        The Navy Seals knew they had to act, or would be lost.

        http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7996087.stm

  • Jackarooty

    That’s such great news! We have another hero. There are so few in this country to truly admire. I can’t wait to hear his story.

    His family is having the best Easter yet.

    • http://noquarter foxyladi14

      AMEN.and so is all of AMERICA!!!!!!!

  • imustprotest

    Great news!

  • texaslatina

    thank GOD! my heart and prayers go to the captain and his family. may God bless them.

  • viking

    GO NAVY!!! I am so proud of our military, heroes one and all!!

    I think we all share, each in our own small way, the tremendous relief and joy the Captain’s family is feeling on this Easter Sunday. God bless America!

  • KmX

    Great news. Well this is interesting. The Pirates promise that if the Americans kill any of the ones holding the Captain, they will kill the other hostages from 15 other nations.

    It’s about time the navy seals end this. Hooray!!!

  • candymarl

    I’m so relieved. But let us not forget the other hostages. Prayers of thanks for Captain Phillips and his family.

    Prayers for the other hostages for their safe return as well.

  • Carol HAKA

    GOD BLESS AMERICA!!

    GOD BLESS OUR MILITARY!!!

    AMERICAN HAKA :evil:

    We still have 16 in a tugboat!

  • MrMike

    Sounds like those SEALS were out there treading water for hours on end waiting for their chance. Either that or there were sharp shooters working in shifts on the Bainbridge waiting for Captain Phillips to make a brake for it again.

  • pacificisland

    Negotiations had broken down before he made his bid for freedom! Thank god for this brave man and the Navy Seals.

    http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97H2KO80&show_article=1

  • Giorgio

    Seals used infrared devices to pinpoint the loction of the five occupants, then shot thru the fiberglass body of the boat; captain jumped to safety during the shooting.
    One for all, all for one! Proud to be an American.

  • James Guglielmino

    NATURALLY, no credit for Obama. Here, he only gets blame. You are one cool group of people..You waste time bitching about a bow, now taking time to write about “why it is important,” but not one damn word about the fact that our country managed to free the American hostage without any Americans being killed. If you PLANNED to be more unfair, you couldnt succeed better.

    • http://BREAKINGNEWS!! Oisafraud

      WHY DON’T YOU GO AND BLOW TO THE FRAUD. WE KICKED THE BRITS OUT OF HERE BECAUSE AMERICANS DON’T BLOW TO KINGS. OBAMA BLOWS AND OBAMA BLOWS, UNAMERICANA.

      • James Guglielmino

        Very bright response. We face catastrophic financial crises and two wars, to say nothing of the fact that our nation has a myriad of other domestic problems from dealing lobbyists who domininate our congress, representing giant corporations and not the people, to finding a solution to using fossil fuels. The first real mini challenge faced by the new administration is met with success. (you did notice, I suppose, that Sarcozy attacked and one of his countrymen died. We lost NO ONE. In other words, Obama didn’t do anything wrong…He succeeded. But you want to make a DEAL about him bowing, even going so far as to refer to it as “blowing.” Yeah, you’re a piece of work.
        Gug

        • Ferd Berfle

          We face catastrophic financial crises and two wars, to say nothing of the fact that our nation has a myriad of other domestic problems from dealing lobbyists who domininate our congress, representing giant corporations and not the people, to finding a solution to using fossil fuels.

          And you no-information supporters (aka, obamabots) of That One gave us the wrong man for the wrong job at the wrong time for the wrong reasons. Why don’t you shut your flapping jib, gasbag?

    • tillthen

      I will join you in congratulating Obama after he registers for the draft as every American citizen must.

    • beebop

      Right …. when he wants to increase funding for our military, we’ll talk about 0bummer. How’s he doing with the new DOG?????

      • James Guglielmino

        Last I knew, his defense budget was being worked out by his Defense Secretary. Last I knew, that man served the last administration and has NEVER been accused of wanting a soft military. What exactly is it that you are objecting to in his defense budget?
        Gug

        • beebop

          SFB …. I don’t do research for butts. Google words like “0bama” “military” “cuts” … surely you know that much, right?

    • http://deleted Buzz Latte

      I’ll join in celebration of Obama’s greatness when he hands over his bona fide birth certificate and proves he’s an american without the 22 lawyers trying to hide the fact that he isn’t.

      • James Guglielmino

        Do you wear your tin foil hat to bed too? Just wondering, since any assertions related to Obama’s birth place anywhere but Hawaii, which last I knew, was one of the 50 states of the United States.

        • http://www.marklevinshow.com Seattle Moss

          which last I knew, was one of the 50 states of the United States.

          Obama actually said that Hawaii was the 57 state.

          Of course the Muslim plant was talking about the 57 states of Islam.

          Even a 5 year old doesn’t get the number of states wrong.

          • James Guglielmino

            You are one sick dude, my friend. Barack Hussein Obama is as American as I am and he manifests love for his country as well as a strong desire to serve it. He remains a politician with all the warts characteristic of politicians,just maybe a few less. If you want to criticize him for policy, go ahead. There is room for that. There have been times when his administration has suggested ill conceived changes, such as the changes suggested in dealing witn veterans’ insurance. What I saw was an administration that initiated dialogue and when confronted with appropriate evidence that the suggestion was bad, backed off of it. I am not happy about the claim that the administration is shielded from law suit. What will happen with that remains to be seen. Having said that, I like it immensely that he changed the Bush policy on secrecy. I like it A LOT that our government is no longer being directed by religion instead of science. I have no idea how he is going to get our troops out of the quagmire that is Iraq and we cannot win a war with armed forces in Afghanistan. But going weird over a slip of the tongue and using THAT as a reason to express hatred for a President qualifies for my friend’s little statement: “These people are idiots. They have always been idiots. If they work hard and study diligently, they may, someday, reach the state of being imbeciles. They will, however, never be able to reach the exalted state of being regarded as morons.”

            • Ferd Berfle

              Barack Hussein Obama is as American as I am and he manifests love for his country as well as a strong desire to serve it.

              Are you about 12, Skippy? He has no sense of honor, no sense of duty unless it includes adoration from bots like you, no sense of propriety, and no sense of what it is to be an American. We get that you worship at his feet, ding-a-ling. So toddle off and go lower the collective IQ by an order of magnitude at some other blog, such as HuffnPuffPo, where you fit in better.

            • Donna Brazile

              Barack Hussein Obama is as American as I am

              Hey Gugaloo loo:

              You tryin’ to tell us somethin’ man. Where you really from?

              Stop the lovefest!

            • Ferd Berfle

              You are one gullible obamatron, Skippy. Take your hogwash back to the sty where it came from, then stay there. I know Americans and That One is no American.

        • TeakwoodKite

          James,

          anywhere but Hawaii, which last I knew, was one of the 50 states of the United States.

          finish the sentence…

        • http://deleted Buzz Latte

          Okay, YOU explain the 22 lawyers and the lawsuits before the SCOTUS regarding the birth certificate matter, then, Jamesey.

          No tinfoil, just some reality. You know the stuff obots can’t handle.

          • I’mFedUp

            LMAO…The stupid bots keep it up, but have THEY seen his birth certificate? Hell no. No one has. And the bottom line, if you have a brain at all (the bots don’t) is that no one who is “innocent” hires three law firms (one of them the CAIR law firm actually) to file “motions to dismiss” so that you don’t have to show your REAL BC. This is a joke. But the best part is that it will come out. And the bots will skulk away with their little bot tails between their legs, weeping that they too were had by the Fraud, their pitiful boss.

    • http://firefox AnnieCollier

      And you’re here why???

      • James Guglielmino

        Your point, Annie, being exactly what, that you want to sit here in a circle jerk with your buddies who hate Obama and don’t even know why and not hear from any descenting voice?

        • Ferd Berfle

          Skippy–No one here hates That One. If you had actually ever read anything here instead of spamming us with your twaddle, you would know that we think he is:

          Unfit
          Unqualified
          Dangerous

          We don’t hate him. We just think he needs to find another line of work. I might add that you need to find another, as well, and stop bothering the adults here on NQ. Nickelodeon has a website that would be cool for a little boy like you. Now beat it.

          • Donna Brazile

            LMAO:-)

      • Katmoon

        He is an insulting asshole who has nothing better to do than to make feeble attempts at what he considers support, by derision, pejorative,rants; incapable of anything beyond black and white reasoning (note: black and white refers to simple two sided reasoning versus abstract thinking processes.)

    • http://www.marklevinshow.com Seattle Moss

      but not one damn word about the fact that our country managed to free the American hostage without any Americans being killed

      We have been talking all day about how brave the captain and our military were in this rescue.
      Of course the whole event may not have happened if it wasn’t for Obama apologizing to the world and emboldening our enemies throughout the world with his wussy ass pie in the sky foreign policy.

      Obama is a punk…and you James are a punks ass

      • http://firefox AnnieCollier

        Exactly, Moss. No coincidence that a ship flying our flag was attacked after the grand tour he took putting us down, apologizing for America.

        I’ll bet anything that these uneducated Somali thugs thought that the POTUS would never go against a Muslim…would find a way around…not knowing that even he (however sympathetic to our enemies) is constrained by other laws, regulations, and directives. In their pea brains, they hear “We’re not a Christian country”, and “We’ve been arrogant”, see pictures of the bow to the Muslim king…the rest falls by the wayside. Like the usual obots, selective hearing/seeing.

  • tillthen

    Congratulations to our Military and the Phillips family for a great outcome. They are the true heroes of America.

    May the shirkers, the draft dodgers and those who never even registered hold their head in shame. I wonder who they could be.

  • FLDemFem

    If the pirates kill the other hostages, the Navy should stand off-shore and reduce that pirate area to small pieces. Remove their infrastructure, sink their boats and set fire to the whole mess. That will keep them from continuing to take hostages and pirate ships. And before you start in about “civilian casualties” let me remind you that the people who are there are there, apart from the hostages, by their own choice. Apparently, women have been flocking to the area to marry up with a pirate. Since the pirates make such a good living and all. So anyone who is there is in with them and should share in their fate.

  • http://BREAKINGNEWS!! Oisafraud

    YES, PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN! AMERICANS DON’T BLOW TO ANYONE, KING OR PIRATES

    • FLDemFem

      Do you mean “bow” rather than “blow”?

  • joker

    Comrad o was playing with his puppy…I hope the puppy pees on his shoe….God Bless this country and all of those who protect it….

    • tillthen

      I can’t wait to see the ‘toons on the dog thing.

  • imustprotest

    The title of this piece is misleading. Phillips wasn’t “freed” as in some sort of negotiation took place….he “freed” himself! That brave man jumped out for a second time to save himself.

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