** EDITED BECAUSE CBS SPELLED IT INCORRECTLY, AND THE NEWSETTES KEEP CALLING IT HALLIBURTON, AND NOT HALLY-BURTON*** perhaps they think it's Halliburton too:rofl:
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http://www.wwj.com/Navy-In-High-Seas-Standoff-With-Pirates/4174704Posted: Thursday, 09 April 2009 4:16PM
Navy In High-Seas Standoff With Pirates
(CBS/AP) The piracy crisis over a lone hostage in the Indian Ocean took on the familiar air of a cops-and-robbers standoff, with the U.S. Navy seeking advice Thursday from seasoned FBI negotiators.
Their goal: Resolve the incident without military force.
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FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said the bureau's hostage negotiating team as "fully engaged" with the military in strategizing ways to ret
The pirates were still holding the 55-year-old Phillips, from Underhill, Vt., after the American crew retook the ship Wednesday and the hostage-takers fled into the lifeboat. Hostage negotiators and military officials have been working around the clock to free Phillips.
The FBI is considered the negotiating arm of the U.S. government for international incidents. The crisis negotiation team has been dispatched to more than 100 incidents worldwide since 1990, according to the bureau. The unit, whose motto is "resolution through dialogue" is based at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va., about 40 miles south of Washington. "We're deeply concerned and we're following it very closely," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said. "More generally, the world must come together to end the scourge of piracy."
(CBS)
Meanwhile, the Maersk Alabama is en route to Mombasa, Kenya with a security detail of 18 Navy personnel on board, reports CBS News national security correspondent David Martin. The USS Bainbridge remains in visual contact with the lifeboat carrying Phillips and officials are in communication with the pirates, reports Martin.
A second U.S. Navy ship, the guided missile frigate Halliburton, which is equipped with helicopters, is also on its way to the scene, reports Martin.
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