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.

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's ...

Castellano gave the green light, and sharpshooters on the fantail of the naval warship opened fire on the partially exposed pirates ... were killed instantaneously by the snipers.

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 ...

In a daring high-seas rescue, U.S. Navy SEAL snipers killed three Somali pirates and freed the American sea captain who had offered himself as a hostage to save his crew. The operation was a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Navy Seal snipers shot and killed three Somali pirates when a commander concluded that Capt. Richard Philips was in imminent danger after one of his captors aimed an AK-47 at his back.

Navy snipers aboard the USS Bainbridge on Sunday shot and killed three of the pirates after the Bainbridge’s commander gave the order, when a pirate was spotted aboard the lifeboat pointing an ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The Somali pirates holding Capt ... Believing Phillips was about to be killed, the commander gave the snipers the order to fire.