captain freed from pirates

"An American ship captain was freed unharmed on Sunday and three of the pirates who held him for days in a lifeboat off the Somali coast were killed in a operation by US Navy Seals that was approved by President Barack Obama, officials said."

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/pirates-dead-captain-freed-in-firefight-20090413-a463.html

..About time they put the Seals into Play. Cocky bloody pirates are now threatening the whole Eastern Indian Ocean.

Yanks & the Brits cleared pirates from the oceans nearly 200 years ago. Now the muslim pirates of Somalia are threatening to put the clock back.