It is the stuff of which great dramas: a captain, who is available as a hostage to save the ship and crew, four of Pirates who wanted to make on board a rescue boat from manövrierunfähigen the business of their lives, and a military superpower, with the three warships watched every movement on board of a few hundred yards away, rescue boat. No wonder that the hostage-taking ended too dramatic.
"The commander on board the 'USS Bainbridge' has within opted seconds, that Captain Richard Phillips is in imminent danger," said the chief of Central Command, the U.S. Navy, Vice Admiral William Gortney, at shortly after liberation Saturday evening. Since the pirates had their arms apparently directed at Phillips, after the U.S. negotiators had refused to pay the demanded ransom of two million U.S. dollars. "Three pirates were shot by snipers, and the fourth was found." Phillips exemption was carried out by special forces.
The 53-year Phillips, whose fate in recent days across America had moved, it goes well. He will soon fly home. With the roar of jubilation Phillips crew responded to the exemption: The 19 sailors on board the Maersk Alabama "are on Saturday evening arrived in Kenya's port city of Mombasa. "We have made it," cried a sailor aboard the "Alabama" over fences across to journalists. "Captain Phillips is our hero," shouted another.
But not all celebrate. Andrew Mwangura, tracking the piracy off Somalia's coast for years, fears that the violent liberation of the hostages at risk of future life. "You get the pirates made violent," said Mwangura. In the past, the hostages had ever happened. "Now it will happen that pirates kill hostages in order to save their own lives." Even U.S. military acknowledges the Gortney. "This could increase the violence in this part of the world certainly leaps and bounds." Several pirate groups have already threatened with retaliation. In
on Monday night were flying for the second time within 24 hours of army helicopters on pirate ports on the Somali coast. "First they kill our friends, we must have fear of bombing," a pirate. "America is our new enemy." The case of Phillips also appears in the political movement to bring debate. Congressman Donald Payne landed on Monday as the first lead U.S. policymakers since the traumatic death of several U.S. soldiers in 1994 in Mogadishu, to talks with the largely powerless transitional government.
After the release of Phillips is now an American ship in the hands of Somali pirates. The tug flying the Italian flag was captured on Saturday. The German freighter Hansa Stavanger with five German sailors on board has been held for more than a week by pirates.
puzzled, meanwhile, is on the cargo on board the Maersk Alabama. According to official figures, is in the containers of food aid for East Africa. But FBI and CIA, who shortly after arriving in Mombasa to take control of the Alabama, refused Kenyan customs officials, according to declare the contents. It might be militarily sensitive goods such as: The "Maersk Alabama is part of a special program for the Navy, are acquired with the trusted ships for military transport.
(Copyright with the daily newspaper, 14/04/2009)
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