foxnews.com - 4/10/2009
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A Somali negotiator said Friday pirates holding American ship captain Richard Phillips hostage want a ransom and are ready to kill Phillips if attacked.
reuters.com - 4/11/2009
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reuters.com —
(For full coverage of the pirate crisis, click
on [nPIRATES]) * Somali elders plan mediation mission *...
Pirates seize U.S.-owned, Italy-flagged tugboat * Attack on another ship repelled by water-hoses * Pirates sailing German ship fail to find ...
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WRAPUP 4-U.S. navy eyeballs Somali pirates in hostage ...
article.nationalreview.com - 4/10/2009
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The Two Million Dollar Man
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
Hey, Barack, the silence is deafening.
Fox News:
A Somali negotiator said Friday pirates holding American ship captain Richard Phillips hostage want a $2 million ransom and are ready to kill Phillips if attacked.
The Navy is moving a huge amphibious ship closer to the scene of the standoff. Defense officials say the USS Boxer, the flag ship for a multination anti-piracy task force, will be nearby soon.
The ransom announcement by the unidentified Somali, who helped negotiate a ransom paid last year to pirates who ...
Somali water-jihadis demand 2 million for American hostage
Jihad Watch —
Latest American victim of the Somali jihad
Add that to the 2.5 million dollars Somalis are demanding for the Canadian woman they raped -- and impregnated -- and you can see that Somalia's jihad-al-mal, or "money-jihad," is going rather well. An update on this story. "Pirates Demand Ransom After U.S. Ship Captain Tries to Escape," from Fox News, April 10: A Somali negotiator said Friday pirates holding American ship captain Richard Phillips hostage want a $2 million ransom and are ...
Things we learned this week
Sister Toldjah —
... . Hats off to the crew for taking control back of the ship so quickly, and thoughts and prayers to the Captain of the ship, who is now a hostage of those same pirates on a lifeboat in the Indian Ocean. ...
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