v**e
发帖数: 8422 | 1 索马里海盗杀死四美国人
4 American hostages killed by pirates, US says
By JASON STRAZIUSO and MALKHADIR M. MUHUMED, Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya – Four Americans taken hostage by Somali pirates off East
Africa were shot and killed by their captors Monday, the U.S. military said,
marking the first time U.S. citizens have been killed in a wave of pirate
attacks plaguing the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean for years.
U.S. naval forces, who were trailing the Americans' captured yacht with four
warships, quickly boarded the vessel after hearing the gunfire and tried to
provide lifesaving care to the Americans, but they died of their wounds,
the U.S. Central Command said in a statement.
Two pirates died during the confrontation and 13 were captured and detained,
the U.S. Central Command said in a statement from Tampa, Fla. The remains
of two other pirates who were already dead for some time were also found.
The U.S. military didn't state how those two might have died.
Negotiations had been under way to try to win the release of the two couples
on the pirated vessel Quest when the gunfire was heard, the U.S. military
said.
The Quest was the home of Jean and Scott Adam, a couple from California who
had been sailing around the world since December 2004 with a yacht full of
Bibles. The two other Americans on board were Phyllis Macay and Bob Riggle,
of Seattle, Washington.
"We express our deepest condolences for the innocent lives callously lost
aboard the Quest," said Gen. James N. Mattis, U.S. Central Command Commander.
In total the U.S. said that 19 pirates were involved in the hijacking of the
Quest.
Only minutes before the military said the four Americans had died, a Somali
pirate told The Associated Press by phone that if the yacht was attacked, "
the hostages will be the first to go."
"Some pirates have even suggested rigging the yacht with land mines and
explosives so as the whole yacht explodes with the first gunshot," said the
pirate, who gave his name as Abdullahi Mohamed, who claimed to be a friend
of the pirates holding the four Americans.
Graeme Gibbon-Brooks, the head of Dryad Maritime Intelligence, said he was
confounded by the turn of events.
"We have heard threats against the lives of Americans before but it strikes
me as being very, very unusual why they would kill hostages outright," he
said, adding that the pirates must realize that killing Americans would
invite a military response.
The military said U.S. forces have been monitoring the Quest for about three
days, since shortly after the pirate attack on Friday. Four Navy warships
were involved, including an aircraft carrier.
Last week a Somali pirate was sentenced to 33 years in prison by a New York
court for the 2009 hijacking of the Maersk Alabama, a U.S. cargo vessel.
That hijacking ended when Navy sharpshooters killed two pirates holding the
ship's captain. | t******t
发帖数: 15246 | 2 美帝会不会借这个机会，上岸剿匪，同时威慑茉莉花革命 | y*h
发帖数: 25423 | 3 索马里没油水，美帝不会那么傻
【在 t******t 的大作中提到】
: 美帝会不会借这个机会，上岸剿匪，同时威慑茉莉花革命
| v**e
发帖数: 8422 | 4 有个电影叫 黑鹰坠落
【在 t******t 的大作中提到】
: 美帝会不会借这个机会，上岸剿匪，同时威慑茉莉花革命
| t******t
发帖数: 15246 | 5 小克还是脚底抹油的主
【在 v**e 的大作中提到】
: 有个电影叫 黑鹰坠落
| j******s
发帖数: 1096 | 6 ...who had been sailing around the world since December 2004
with a yacht full of Bibles...
这是啥状况？ | t*n
发帖数: 14458 | 7 估计是前面米帝先打死了俩海盗
然后谈判的
海盗就悲愤地杀人了
said,
four
to
【在 v**e 的大作中提到】
: 索马里海盗杀死四美国人
: 4 American hostages killed by pirates, US says
: By JASON STRAZIUSO and MALKHADIR M. MUHUMED, Associated Press
: NAIROBI, Kenya – Four Americans taken hostage by Somali pirates off East
: Africa were shot and killed by their captors Monday, the U.S. military said,
: marking the first time U.S. citizens have been killed in a wave of pirate
: attacks plaguing the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean for years.
: U.S. naval forces, who were trailing the Americans' captured yacht with four
: warships, quickly boarded the vessel after hearing the gunfire and tried to
: provide lifesaving care to the Americans, but they died of their wounds,
| m**********2
发帖数: 6568 | 8 they travel around the world to give out free copies of bible--to spread god
's words, you see.
【在 j******s 的大作中提到】
: ...who had been sailing around the world since December 2004
: with a yacht full of Bibles...
: 这是啥状况？
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