Amazingly, cooler heads prevailed on this. Captain is free now. Makes me wonder what the real consequences of "I want this president to fail" really mean, especially in a case like this!
Do not know who or whom said that they wanted the president to fail in this event? Cooler heads prevailed no evidence of that but ther is evidence of the following. Ha
"The San Diego-based warship USS Boxer,which gets some of its munitions from the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station and carries Marines from Camp Pendleton, has arrived at the scene of a stand-off with pirates who are holding an American ship captain in a lifeboat.
CNN is reporting that the pirates fired at a rescue vessel from the USS Bainbridge, a destroyer that?s in the same area as the Boxer. The Navy did not return fire, the military said.
The US Navy confirmed that the 844-foot long Boxer ? which is leading and international anti-piracy task force ? is assisting Bainbridge, which is shadowing the pirates who briefly took control of the American-flagged container ship MV Maersk Alabama. The crew regained control of the ship, which has since made port in Kenya. However, Somali pirates are holding the ship?s captain, 53-year-old Richard Phillips of Vermont, hostage in a small boat.
Phillips made an unsuccessful attempt Friday to escape from the pirates in an area the Associated Press says its roughly 300 miles from the Horn of Africa.
The Boxer? which is basically a small aircraft carrier -
carries upwards of 1,800 Marines on deployment, most of whom are drawn from Camp Pendleton. Some live or are natives of Orange County.
The ship has been involved in the current Iraq War, and
is among the most heavily armed vessels in the US Navy, typically carrying everything from Harrier attack planes to Super Cobra attack helicopters to Sea Sparrow missiles.
