Why would the Somalian teenagers shoot Captain Phillips when one was negotiating with the US?

So what if they were teenagers? They boarded a vessel illegally, with weapons, then took someone hostage and threatened his life.





I think the eradication of this scum is the right approach. Softly-softly hasn't worked in this country with petty crime, which is why petty crime has now escalated to violent robberies and the continually news of stabbings in the streets.





Anyway, to answer your question - whether they shot him or not is irrelevant. They had loaded weapons and threatened his life. They may have been bluffing, but a man's life is one hell of a gamble, isn't it?Why would the Somalian teenagers shoot Captain Phillips when one was negotiating with the US?
Why would the somalian teenagers even take him as a hostage,


why do criminals do what they do, if we knew that then there would


not be any. Why would one wait to see if the Somalian teenagers


would shoot the captain, especially when they had a rifle pointed


at him. The best thing that happened is that no one waited to find out.Why would the Somalian teenagers shoot Captain Phillips when one was negotiating with the US?
They didn't shoot him, the captain in my estimation is a god damn hero. Faced with certain death he gave himself up to protect his crew and seized his last chance at survival by jumping into the open sea and the SEALS had no other choice but to take out the trash. They may have been kids but they were kids of their heads on drugs with AK47's. You do not negotiate with people like that you exterminate them at all costs. The Captain deserves the CMH.
Rescues by force cannot become the rule. The principle that seafaring nations should not allow themselves to be blackmailed into paying ransoms is a noble one, but it doesn't increase the risks for the pirates. The battle against piracy cannot be a rivalry about who has the best snipers -- it is simply not clear how many new pirates are emerging. ';





';The power struggle on the Horn of Africa is far from decided, neither between the pirates and the war ships, nor between the schools of thought about the best course of action to take.';
They didn't shoot him, they were holding a gun to his back, imminent danger. I certainly would not want some freaked out teenager aiming a gun at me. At any rate, it appeared necessary to eliminate the danger of the Captain getting hurt, and I don't blame them. It's hard to have sympathy for kidnappers.
Had they shot Capt. Phillips he would not have been the first Capt. to have been shot by Pirates in recent times.


They were pirates, in the good old days they would have been strung up from the yard arms.


Well done US forces and well done President Obama.
Why would Somalian teenagers try to pirate a boat? Why would they threaten the Captains life? Those mean ole seal just dropped them on orders from our commander in chief President Obama. This is the first blood on Obamas hands.
Captain Philips was NOT shot. He appeared to be in imminent danger whilst one of the captors was negotiating with the negotiator, and the other 3 teenagers had to keep him there as their bargaining tool!
fortunately they took that information to their graves lol