Video: Somali pirates fire on US Navy helicopter

by Infidelesto on August 27, 2009 · Comments

I would have no mercy for them…

hattip: Jawa for the video

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Somali pirates holding a hijacked ship off the coast of Somalia fired at a U.S. Navy helicopter as it made a surveillance flight over the vessel, the first such attack by pirates on an American military aircraft, the Navy said Thursday.[...]The copter was flying on Wednesday over a Taiwanese-flagged fishing vessel, the Win Far, which pirates seized along with its 30-member crew in April and were holding south of the Somali port town of Hobyo.

The helicopter was about 3,000 yards away from the ship when the pirates opened fire with “a large caliber weapon,” the Navy said in a statement. The helicopter did not return fire, it said.

Since seizing the Win Far in the Gulf of Aden, the pirates have used the vessel as a base for attacking other commercial ships, including the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama. Four pirates seized the Maersk Alabama in April, taking its captain Richard Phillips hostage. He was held for five days in a sweltering lifeboat off the coast until U.S. Navy snipers shot three of his captors dead.

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  • Storm_Rider
    Return fire.
  • jmberman
    When did we begin acting like the UN?
    FIRE BACK...
    We need to show them that we are willing to blow their asses out of the water
    to get them to take us seriously.
    Has no one heard of the Lusitania?
    They will get more aggressive, more ballsy, more overt.
    We need to stop being so damn REACTIVE, and be Men, and be PROACTIVE!
  • SirWilhelm
    Remember when that captain was rescued from the pirates that took him hostage? The snipers couldn't take out the priates with the guns until Obama gave the go command. I'm sure the same is true for all our military units in that area. Ask Obama why he wants it that way.
  • Storm_Rider
    Under Marxist theory all things must be equal, even when they are self-evidently not equal.

    This lie helps the Marxist set up class warfare between the Middle Class and Proletariat in regards to property, i.e.: government robs from the former and gives to the latter. Perish the thought that individuals in the Proletariat Class might decide to exercise their creativity and work hard for a living; thus raising themselves up to the level of the Middle Class and achieving or approximating economic equality the way our Founding Fathers envisioned.

    Marxist theory also applies to international relationships; no nation can be allowed to be greater than another; all nations must be "equal" even if some are disgusting, totalitarian, terrorist-haven hell-holes. In order for the latter to be "equal" to the United States we must be brought down to their level. Perish the thought that the hell-holes of the Earth might discover the God-given unalienable rights of life, liberty and private property (pursuit of happiness) for their people; and thereby move themselves up to our level by unleashing the liberty and creativity of their people.

    The United States must be brought down so all nations and terrorist groups can be equal. Thus sayeth the Prophets of Marx!
  • JEWHAWK
    I'd PAY whatever they ask;

    I'd also CONTAMINATE the money with generous amounts of LEAD.Once
    within their bloodstreams,this poison would begin to screw them.

    Or LEAD + ASBESTOS.
  • SirWilhelm
    The pirates are probably still holding the crew of the Win Far on board, otherwise I would say blow it out of the water.
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