Waste of fuel?
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Why US Navy took 3 and half hours before fired a warning shot to
a suspected piracy vessel??At 8:03 a.m. local time Jan. 21,(
fr Suspected Pirates Captured Off Somali Coast
The U.S. NavyÂ’s Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81))
The U.S. NavyÂ’s Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) follows a suspected pirate vessel in the Indian Ocean Jan. 21. After receiving a report of an attempted act of piracy from the International Maritime Bureau in Kuala Lumpur on the morning of Jan. 20, the guided missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) and other U.S. naval forces in the area located this vessel controlled by suspected pirates and reported its position.
Churchill began querying the pirate vessel over
ship-to-ship radio.....
At 11:31 a.m. local time, Churchill fired warning shots.
The vessel cut speed and went dead in the water.
Story Number: NNS060121-01
Release Date: 1/21/2006 7:12:00 PM
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Maybe they need to tail them for a while...abit like what the police will do to suspects...tail them first maybe they might be caught in the act red-handed...well this is just my opinion...
