WASHINGTON A California couple and two other Americans taken hostage by Somali pirates were mortally wounded Tuesday morning by their captors, shortly before a U.S. special operations team boarded the hijacked vessel, killed two of the pirates and captured the rest, U.S. military officials said.
Some of the victims were still alive when they were found by the U.S. team and were given first aid, but all four died, said Adm. Mark Fox, the commander of U.S. naval forces in the region.
I'm sure that we will stongly condemn these atrocious actions and we will demand that Somalia stop this lawlessness blah, blah, blah...
business as usual.
http://www.latimes.com/news/sc-dc-0223-pirates-deaths-20110222,0,1194457.story
Some of the victims were still alive when they were found by the U.S. team and were given first aid, but all four died, said Adm. Mark Fox, the commander of U.S. naval forces in the region.
I'm sure that we will stongly condemn these atrocious actions and we will demand that Somalia stop this lawlessness blah, blah, blah...
business as usual.
http://www.latimes.com/news/sc-dc-0223-pirates-deaths-20110222,0,1194457.story