The captain of the Maersk Alabama was freed Sunday after being held captive since Wednesday by pirates off the coast of Somalia, a senior U.S. official with knowledge of the situation told CNN.
The official said Capt. Richard Phillips is uninjured and in good condition, and that three of the four pirates were killed. The fourth pirate is in custody. Phillips was taken aboard the USS Bainbridge, a nearby naval warship.
Earlier Sunday afternoon Maersk Line Limited, owner of the Maersk Alabama, said the U.S. Navy informed the company that it had sighted Phillips in a lifeboat where pirates are holding him.
Phillips was spotted another time earlier in the day, the Navy said.
A man who answered the door at Phillips home in Underhill, Vermont, told CNN’s Stephanie Elam that the family has known the news for hours. He said details would have to come from Virginia, apparently referring to the home base of Maersk Line Limited, based in Norfolk, which owns the ship.
On Saturday, the FBI launched a criminal investigation into the hijacking of the U.S.-flagged cargo ship by Somali pirates, two law enforcement officials told CNN. The probe will be led by the FBI’s New York field office, which is responsible for looking into cases involving U.S. citizens in the African region, the officials said.
The Maersk Alabama reached port in Mombasa, Kenya, on Saturday. Crew members aboard the freed cargo ship described how some of their colleagues attempted to “jump” their pirate captors.
A scuffle ensued and one of the sailors stabbed a pirate in the hand in the battle to retake the container ship, one of the sailors told CNN.
Apparently the Captain jumped overboard again but this time there were Navy SEALS in the water who then took the pirates out. Good job Navy!
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Ooooohhh, the widdle Gaffa thwow a tantrwum!!!!
Anymore adult insights other than proudly claiming the Lawrence of Arabia was Britain’s greatest counter-terrorism expert????
Factual errors??? the only factual errors are the ones INVENTED by you in your mind, that you attribute to me. Robin Hood?? I talk to you abt Robin Hood because your history comes from watching movies. Got to bring myself down to Walt Disney level to talk to you. Sir Hiss, Prince John the lion, Robin Hood the fox. Don’t even know sarcasm when you read it, dumbass.
Want me to talk about King Arthur also?? Or british fairies(like you)?.
On yer bike matey!!! The hot vibrwwating motorbwike of Mr Lawrence of Arwwwabia!!!!
@Comrade Sig Von Felchmeister
lol – it’s you who brought up Robin Hood you idiot. lol. And now you are acting like Tweety bird. Let me guess you are so embarrassed that you are trying to make it sarcasm.
So was your denial that US liberated China at the end WWII also sarcasm?
Haha, look how flustered this dimwit Gaffa sounds!
He’s dumb enough to proclaim Lawrence of Arabia as Britain’s greatest counter-terrorist expert, so I guess next he will be saying that “Crocodile Dundee” is a SEAL and King Arthur was actually an “insurgent”. Or maybe the late Steve Irwin was actually a CIA agent????
It’s not easy to find people as dimwitted as Gaffa on the internet. If he is an example of the typical leftwinger, then he really shows how dimwitted the left is.
Looks like he can’t forget how DUMB he was in proclaiming HIS IDOL Lawrence of Arabia to be Britain’s greatest Counter-Terrorism Expert.
Looks like he has been riding TOO LONG on the hot, vibrating motorbike of Mr Lawrence of Arabia!!!!!! Riding in front of course, and bending over over the Gaffa way. Yup, that’s just for him, since he advocates gay interests….nothing wrong with saying he lusts to bendover for lawrencing, right???? Only natural, right??? To be lawrenced by his idol over a motorbike???
Just two questions for Gaffa of Arabia:
(and your suggested answers)
Was Lawrence of Arabia Britain’s Greatest Counter-Terrorism Expert?
1)Yes, because I worship his hot, vibrating motorbike and I am a dimwit.
2)No, King Arthur was Britain’s Greatest Counter-Terrorism Expert, any fool knows that
Do you, Gaffa, want to ride on Lawrence’s hot, vibrating motorbike?
1)Yes, I love the feeling of being bentover a hot, vibrating motorbike with an Englishman wearing robes behind me
2)No, I want to be bentover King Arthur’s cold, hard Roundtable with an Englishman wearing chainmail behind me