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,(
The
U.S. Navys Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS
Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81))
The U.S. Navys 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.
fr Suspected
Pirates Captured Off Somali Coast
Story Number: NNS060121-01
Release Date: 1/21/2006 7:12:00 PM
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