Kidnapped U.S. captain freed; pirates killed

Navy snipers on the fantail of a destroyer cut down three Somali pirates in a lifeboat and rescued an American sea captain in a surprise nighttime assault in choppy seas Easter Sunday, ending a five-day standoff between a team of rogue gunmen and the world’s most powerful military.

By: By Todd Pitman and Lara Jakes, The Associated Press, The Jamestown Sun