Posted on 04/13/2009 3:27:57 PM PDT by tobyhill
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Monday that three Somali pirates who were killed by the Navy's Seals to end a hostage crisis were "untrained" teenagers.
Addressing an audience at the Marine Corps War College in Quantico, Virginia, Gates said that the slain pirates, aged at between 17 to 19, were heavily armed but inexperienced.
They were shot dead on Sunday at the end of a five-day standoff with the U.S. military after they attacked a U.S.-flagged cargo ship about 400 kilometers away from Somali and held an American captain as hostage.
"As long as you've got this incredible number of poor people and the risks are relatively small, there's really no way in my view to control it unless you get something on land that begins to change the equation for these kids," Gates told students and faculty members.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.xinhuanet.com ...
Murdering thug teenagers blow up real good! Cry me a freaking river.
And God forbid something had happened to the Captain, he would have only been dead 17 to 19 years?
LOL! I can see it now “The Barack Obama Global School of Proper Piracy”
Same situation and age groups participated in the attacks on our troops in Mogodishu...Opps, looky there, same country...
Has anyone explained how it is that Xinhua (the ChiCom’s answer to Pravda) knows ANYTHING about what was in an address to The Marine War College? Are such talks open to the public and/or communist propaganda organs?
Or, did the O administration send them an advance copy? Enquiring minds want to know!
DG
Did they fail out of pirate school?
Whereas the hostage was a highly trained professional.,
Got from a cell wall!
They feel great and are still very active on FR. They are the McCainiacs. McCain is the one that started the incessant whining about Rummy and got 7 stupid retired generals to join him.
I second that motion! Actually, I felt that way the day he was named.
Only to a rational person.
I suspect the family of the ranger who was dragged through the streets doesn’t care how old they were.
War on Terror is now: Over seas contingencies
Terrorists are now: (awww geez, I forget the new term)
Pirates are now: Untrained teenagers
This is getting more ridiculous by the minute.
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No kidding? Well, that's interesting.
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