Good Will Conquer Evil...

and the Truth Will Set You Free...
and I Know Someday, We'll Find the Key.*

By JASON STRAZIUSO and MALKHADIR M. MUHUMED, Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya – Four Americans taken hostage by Somali pirates off East Africa were shot and killed by their captors Monday, the U.S. military said, marking the first time U.S. citizens have been killed in a wave of pirate attacks plaguing the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean for years.

U.S. Naval forces, who were trailing the Americans' captured yacht with four warships, quickly boarded the vessel after hearing the gunfire and tried to provide lifesaving care to the Americans, but they died of their wounds, the U.S. Central Command said in a statement.

RIP the 4 American lives taken by Somali pirates.

I don't want to hear right now how these poor people have no other options than pirating; there's too many good, poor people doing the right thing to lift themselves, to buy that.

Don't want to hear how the 4 had no business in those waters without protection -- that they courted their own deaths. Might be your true opinion, but they paid for their miscalculations.

Negotiations had been under way to try to win the release of the two couples on the pirated vessel Quest when the gunfire was heard, the U.S. military said.

The Quest was the home of Jean and Scott Adam, a couple from California who had been sailing around the world since December 2004 with a yacht full of Bibles. The two other Americans on board were Phyllis Macay and Bob Riggle, of Seattle, Washington.

No excuses. Let them RIP. I just hope we get a full and truthful accounting of what happened.

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*That's Jimmy Cliff (Many Rivers to Cross), not Bruce Springsteen, speaking, you know...

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