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https://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/02/22/somalia.us.yacht/index.html?hpt=T2

(CNN) -- Four Americans on board a yacht hijacked by pirates last week are dead, according to a defense official with knowledge of military activities in the region.

The vessel, the S/V Quest, was being shadowed by the military after being captured off the coast of Oman on Friday. Officials had said earlier Tuesday it was less than two days from the Somali coast.

Owners Jean and Scott Adam and two other people on board, Phyllis Macay and Bob Riggle, had been traveling with yachts participating in the Blue Water Rally since their departure from Phuket, Thailand, rally organizers said Sunday in a statement on the event's website. The group, which organizes long-distance group cruises, said the S/V Quest broke off on February 15 after leaving Mumbai, India, to take a different route.
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I'm not trying to say it's their own fault because I think it's a terrible tragedy, and I do realize they were out there on some type of religious mission, but I don't see how anybody in their right mind takes a yaught out into that area. You are just BEGGING to be hijacked by crazy *** pirates who will kill you.
 
Whether they were in the wrong place at the wrong time and made a bad decision accordingly it is still tragic that the pirates are operating the way they are and that this group of innocent people met their end this way.
 
The thing that surprises me that they are arresting and take the 'pirates' to trial. My understanding is that International Piracy laws haven't changed for a long time. I believe they could all be summarily hung.
 
On the long list of "Ways that Americans Should Never Die", being killed by pirates is probably toward the top, in between "Being eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex" and "Being trampled by a mammoth".
 
Lance-A-Million said:
https://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/02/22/somalia.us.yacht/index.html?hpt=C1

Article says that the hostages were killed after the US launched a "rocket-propelled grenade" that missed the pirated vessel. All of this while they were negotiating for the hostages release. I don't understand why we would attack on those pirates with the risk of them murdering the hostages. Isn't the whole point to safely secure the hostages?
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The Navy had success doing this in the past:
https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a5xXupvfR7cU


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VINYLONE said:
What the **** were they doing in that area?
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YB85 said:
On the long list of "Ways that Americans Should Never Die", being killed by pirates is probably toward the top, in between "Being eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex" and "Being trampled by a mammoth".
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How did death by driving your tractor into amanure pit not make the cut?

Qman said:
I believe they could all be summarily hung.
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It's Sumerian, and pirates are Somali.
 
franklin said:
How did death by driving your tractor into amanure pit not make the cut?
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It's further down the list.

VINYLONE said:
Or driving your Segway off of a cliff?
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Are you serious? That's a very American way to die. You're too ****ing lazy to walk so you ride one of those things and you're too ****ing stupid to jump off so you stay on it as it plunges down.
 
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