Swashbuckling Heroes

by digby

You can probably forget any kind of other news today. There aren’t any details of the operation yet, but this is probably going to be something out of an epic yarn:

An American ship captain was freed unharmed Sunday in a swift firefight that killed three of the four Somali pirates who had been holding him for days in a lifeboat off the coast of Africa, the ship’s owner said.

Apparently, they (Navy Seals?) boarded the ship and killed the pirates and rescued the captain. It’s hard to believe it’s 2009.