Phillips was just feet from the pirates when the snipers opened fire. The three pirates on board the lifeboat were killed. Phillips was pulled from the lifeboat and transported to the Bainbridge.

After days of tense negotiations, the U.S. Navy rescue of an American sea captain came in a matter of seconds Sunday when a few sniper bullets killed three Somali pirates who authorities feared ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — In a daring high-seas rescue, U.S. Navy snipers killed three Somali pirates and freed the American sea captain being held at gunpoint. The operation was a victory for the world ...

MOMBASA, Kenya – Navy snipers on the fantail of a destroyer cut down three Somali pirates in a lifeboat and ... up and in "imminent danger" of being killed when the commander of the nearby ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — Navy snipers on a destroyer cut down three Somali pirates in a lifeboat and rescued ... who was tied up and in "imminent danger" of being killed when the commander of the ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – Navy snipers on the fantail of a destroyer cut down three Somali pirates in a lifeboat ... and in “imminent danger” of being killed when the commander of the nearby ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — In a daring high-seas rescue, U.S. Navy snipers killed three Somali pirates and freed the American sea captain being held at gunpoint. The operation was a victory for the world ...

Navy officers aboard the USS Bainbridge were in the midst of a drawn-out hostage negotiation when Navy snipers saw one of the pirates aim his AK-47 machine gun at Capt. Richard Phillips's back and ...

MOMBASA, Kenya -- U.S. Navy snipers opened fire and killed three pirates holding an American captain at gunpoint, delivering the skipper unharmed and ending a five-day high-seas hostage drama on ...

The three Navy SEAL snipers who killed the pirates off the coast of Somalia last weekend were lucky the buccaneers were gullible enough to allow their lifeboat to be towed farther out to sea by ...