Pirates vow revenge after three die in hostage rescue
Snipers on a US Navy ship cut down three Somali pirates in a lifeboat and rescued an American sea captain in a surprise nighttime assault in choppy seas, ending a five-day standoff between a team of rogue gunmen and the world’s most powerful military.
It was a stunning ending to an Indian Ocean odyssey that began when 53-year-old freighter Captain Richard Phillips was taken hostage on Wednesday by pirates who tried to hijack the US-flagged Maersk Alabama.
