Four Americans killed by pirates days after yacht was hijacked off the Somalia coast
BY Philip Caulfield and Corky Siemaszko
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Tuesday, February 22nd 2011
Four Americans who were being held hostage by Somali pirates were slaughtered Tuesday before the U.S. Navy could rescue them.
After boarding the yacht, "the forces discovered all four hostages had been shot by their captors," General James Mattis, head of the U.S. Central Command, said in a statement.
"Despite immediate steps to provide life-saving care, all four hostages ultimately died of their wounds," he wrote.
The victims were identified as yacht owners Jean and Scott Adam of California, and Seattle residents Phyllis Macay and Bob Riggle.
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When you respond to pirates with kid gloves as we have, this is what you get. We should determine what ports these pirates call home and have our warships turn them into a moon-like fields of craters. To be humane, of course, we would give the locals the opportunity to execute the pirates themselves first.
Since they killed foreign nationals it is quite understandable they should be brought to the US to stand the trial in the country of those nationals. The only problem is that putting those pirates in a prison somewhere in the United States might mean improving their living conditions. It would be a win for them as they would probably enjoy higher standard of living than back home.
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