I was getting on the Internet on my office computer and as always breaking news is the first thing that catches my eye being as it's settings are on a comcast news site. The leading story was about four Americans being killed by pirates. I honestly caught myself stop and re-read the headline thinking, "did I just see this right?" I'm not trying to show my "roots" here, but I honestly didn't know that pirates existed in real life. Sure there are movies like "The Little Mermaid" and even non-animated movies such as "Into the Blue" and others that feature thieves in the ocean robbing innocent bystanders and label them as pirates. Nonetheless, I thought it was just a story, not real life.
When I continued reading I was overwhelmed as I realized it was in fact real life, being as four innocent people were killed today.
The four people were on a yacht of the coast of Somalia, and the yacht, the Quest was hijacked on Friday. When a bombing occurred today, SOF Soldiers reached the Quest and found the remains of the Americans as well as four pirates. In all there were nineteen pirates involved in the tragedy.
Secretary of state Hilary Clinton is wanting the piracy policy to change, especially after this being the most horrific pirate attack to date on Americans.
What do you think should be done in order to increase Americans safety in waters off of our borders?
God Bless,
Lauren
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/02/22/americans-aboard-yacht-captured-pirates-reportedly-killed/?test=latestnews
I saw this and had to think to myself after all the coverage Somalian pirates have had, why would anyone travel to Somalia with the risks at stake?
ReplyDeleteLauren awesome blog post! I read about this in an article the other day. It’s so sad what happened to those missionaries. They were doing something awesome with their lives and they were spreading the word of the Lord. I think that the Gulf where the pirate’s hangout is one of the most dangerous places on earth right now. The Somalia pirates just simply do not care for life. They will do anything for money and to get out of going to jail. In the article I read one of the captured pirates said “they would start killing every hostage”. This is so scary! I hope more aircraft carriers show up in the Indian ocean and takes care of these mean pirates.
ReplyDeleteI learned about real pirates last year and i was just as shocked as you. It makes you not want to go sailing or anything that has to do with water. I heard about this story a couple of weeks ago and its very sad because people can't do normal things and live their lives without being attacked. There should be something done about pirates, but the only thing people can do is try to stay away from where pirates may be located.
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