US captain rescued from pirates
Found on BBC News on Saturday, 11 April 2009
Three pirates were killed in the operation to free Captain Richard Phillips after being held in a lifeboat for several days.
On Sunday he jumped overboard for a second time, and the pirates were shot and killed before they could take action to get him back.
The order for US snipers to kill the pirates came when "the on-scene [US navy] commander determined that the captain was in imminent danger," Vice Admiral William Gortney, head of the US Naval Central Command, said in a Pentagon briefing from Bahrain.
They should go on like this. It will reduce the number or pirates and feed the fishes.