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The price of piracy
First off, it just has to be said: Nice shooting, SEALs. Simultaneously hitting and instantly killing three partly obscured pirates who were holding guns on an American hostage -- and doing it after nightfall, from the deck of a ship in choppy seas --...Tags: Crimes, Death, Richard Phillips, Armed Forces, U.S. Navy
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Father Boyle makes good on the bestseller list
Jacket CopyTwo new inspirational tales enter the hardcover nonfiction list this week, including local hero Father Gregory Boyle's "Tattoos on the Heart" at No. 8. The Jesuit priest is the founder of Homeboy Industries, the gang intervention and jobs organization.... -
Navy SEAL Team 6 Rescues Kidnapped Aid Workers in Somalia
CNNWashington -- Freed hostages Jessica Buchanan and Poul Thisted arrived at a U.S. base in Sicily Thursday, a day after being rescued in a U.S. military raid in Somalia, a spokesman for the base said. The pair are now at Naval Air Station Sigonella, said...Tags: Metal and Mineral, NATO, United Nations, Defense, Jay Carney
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U.S. Special Forces launch daring raid in Somalia, rescue aid workers
CNNU.S. special forces swooped into Somalia in a pair of helicopters in a daring overnight raid to rescue two kidnapped aid workers -- an American and a Dane -- and killed several gunmen, American officials said Wednesday. The hostages, Jessica Buchanan and...Tags: Injuries and Wounds, CNN (tv network), Leon Panetta, Kidnapping, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Members of SEAL Team 6 rescue aid workers in Somalia
In a daring night time raid, U.S. Special Forces rescued two aid workers held captive in Somalia, American Jessica Buchanan and Dane Poul Thistead.
“To risk their lives to get the two lives of those captives is really heroic of them,” says...Tags: Criminals, Hampton Roads, Richard Phillips, CNN (tv network), Osama bin Laden
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A tale of two captains: One captain risks his life for his ship while another is accused of abandoning ship
You’ve heard the expressi
on, “the captain goes down with the ship.” The jarring details of the sinking of the Costa Concordia reveal behavior from the captain that flies in the face of basic maritime law.
As recent history has shown,...Tags: Richard Phillips, Costa Concordia Shipwreck, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
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Inside the Navy SEAL Museum
WTKR-TV3From the Second World War, to the space race. "We are just yards from the beach here where the frogmen trained in World War II," says Mike Howard, Executive Director of the Navy UDT-SEAL Museum. "The UDT guys would be the first ones to the capsule,"...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Armed Forces, Defense, Osama bin Laden, Terrorism
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Paul Greengrass considers a Tom Hanks drama and a Formula One racing movie
Frankly My Dear - Orlando SentinelHe lost his chance to do one of his trademark politically-charged historical dramas when Universal bailed out of the Martin Luther King assassination film “Memphis.” And he doesn't want anything to do with the “Bourne” reboot, even... -
Somali pirates kill four americans including Seattle couple
With Information From CNN, Reuters & KTLAA Seattle couple is among the dead in a hijacking off the coast of Somalia. Phyllis Macay and Bob Riggle of Seattle and their friends, Jean and Scott Adam from California were on board a yacht when they were hijacked by Somali pirates Friday. Q13 FOX...Tags: Crimes, Politics, Armed Forces, Richard Phillips, CNN (tv network)
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Somali pirates kill four American hostages
The Associated PressA pirate fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a U.S. Navy destroyer shadowing a hijacked yacht with four Americans aboard Tuesday. Then gunfire erupted, the military said. U.S. special forces rushed to the yacht only to find the four Americans fatally...Tags: Crimes, Armed Conflicts, Injuries and Wounds, Around The World Sailing, Religious Texts
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Daughter of sailor killed by pirates thanks Navy
ESCONDIDO, Calif. -- The daughter of one of the four Americans killed Tuesday by Somali pirates thanked the Navy sailors who tried to save their lives and asked to be allowed to grieve in private.
Jean and Scott Adams of Marina Del Rey, Calif., were...Tags: Crimes, Murder, Around The World Sailing, FBI, Armed Forces
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U.S. says pirates kill 4 Americans on yacht off Somalia
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...Tags: Crimes, Seattle, Armed Forces, Defense, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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