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Christ's victory over his enemies. (1-6) His mercy toward his church. (7-14) The prayer of the church. (15-19)
Verses 1-6 The prophet, in vision, beholds the Messiah returning in triumph from the conquest of his enemies, of whom Edom was a type. Travelling, not as wearied by the combat, but, in the greatness of his strength, prepared to overcome every opposing power. Messiah declares that he had been treading the wine-press of the wrath of God, ( Revelation 14:19 , Revelation 19:13 ) , and by his own power, without any human help, he had crushed his obstinate opposers, for the day of vengeance was determined on, being the appointed season for rescuing his church. Once, he appeared on earth in apparent weakness, to pour out his precious blood as an atonement for our sins; but he will in due time appear in the greatness of his strength. The vintage ripens apace; the day of vengeance, fixed and determined on, approaches apace; let sinners seek to be reconciled to their righteous Judge, ere he brings down their strength to the earth. Does Christ say, "I come quickly?" let our hearts reply, "Even so, come; let the year of the redeemed come."
Verses 7-14 The latter part of this chapter, and the whole of the next, seem to express the prayers of the Jews on their conversation. They acknowledge God's great mercies and favours to their nation. They confess their wickedness and hardness of heart; they entreat his forgiveness, and deplore the miserable condition under which they have so long suffered. The only-begotten Son of the Father became the Angel or Messenger of his love; thus he redeemed and bare them with tenderness. Yet they murmured, and resisted his Holy Spirit, despising and persecuting his prophets, rejecting and crucifying the promised Messiah. All our comforts and hopes spring from the loving-kindness of the Lord, and all our miseries and fears from our sins. But he is the Saviour, and when sinners seek after him, who in other ages glorified himself by saving and feeding his purchased flock, and leading them safely through dangers, and has given his Holy Spirit to prosper the labours of his ministers, there is good ground to hope they are discovering the way of peace.
Verses 15-19 They beseech him to look down on the abject condition of their once-favoured nation. Would it not be glorious to his name to remove the veil from their hearts, to return to the tribes of his inheritance? The Babylonish captivity, and the after-deliverance of the Jews, were shadows of the events here foretold. The Lord looks down upon us in tenderness and mercy. Spiritual judgments are more to be dreaded than any other calamities; and we should most carefully avoid those sins which justly provoke the Lord to leave men to themselves and to their deceiver. "Our Redeemer from everlasting" is thy name; thy people have always looked upon thee as the God to whom they might appeal. The Lord will hear the prayers of those who belong to him, and deliver them from those not called by his name.
Isaiah 63:1-19 . MESSIAH COMING AS THE AVENGER, IN ANSWER TO HIS PEOPLE'S PRAYERS.
Messiah, approaching Jerusalem after having avenged His people on His and their enemies, is represented under imagery taken from the destruction of "Edom," the type of the last and most bitter foes of God and His people (see Isaiah 34:5 , &c.).
1. Who--the question of the prophet in prophetic vision.
dyed--scarlet with blood ( Isaiah 63:2 Isaiah 63:3 , Revelation 19:13 ).
travelling--rather, stately; literally, "throwing back the head" [GESENIUS].
speak in righteousness--answer of Messiah. I, who have in faithfulness given a promise of deliverance, am now about to fulfil it. Rather, speak of righteousness ( Isaiah 45:19 , 46:13 ); salvation being meant as the result of His "righteousness" [MAURER].
save--The same Messiah that destroys the unbeliever saves the believer.
2. The prophet asks why His garments are "dyed" and "red."
winefat--rather, the "wine-press," wherein the grapes were trodden with the feet; the juice would stain the garment of him who trod them ( Revelation 14:19 Revelation 14:20 , 19:15 ). The image was appropriate, as the country round Bozrah abounded in grapes. This final blow inflicted by Messiah and His armies ( Revelation 19:13-15 ) shall decide His claim to the kingdoms usurped by Satan, and by the "beast," to whom Satan delegates his power. It will be a day of judgment to the hostile Gentiles, as His first coming was a day of judgment to the unbelieving Jews.
3. Reply of Messiah. For the image, see Lamentations 1:15 . He "treads the wine-press" here not as a sufferer, but as an inflicter of vengeance.
will tread . . . shall be . . . will stain--rather preterites, "I trod . . . trampled . . . was sprinkled . . . I stained."
blood--literally, "spirited juice" of the grape, pressed out by treading [GESENIUS].
4. is--rather, "was." This assigns the reason why He has thus destroyed the foe ( Zephaniah 3:8 ).
my redeemed--My people to be redeemed.
day . . . year--here, as in Isaiah 34:8 , 61:2 , the time of "vengeance" is described as a "day"; that of grace and of "recompense" to the "redeemed," as a "year."
5. The same words as in Isaiah 59:16 , except that there it is His "righteousness," here it is His "fury," which is said to have upheld Him.
6. Rather, preterites, "I trod down . . . made them drunk." The same image occurs Isaiah 51:17 Isaiah 51:21-23 , Psalms 75:8 , Jeremiah 25:26 Jeremiah 25:27 .
will bring down . . . strength to . . . earth--rather, "I spilled their life-blood (the same Hebrew words as in Isaiah 63:3 ) on the earth" [LOWTH and Septuagint].
7. Israel's penitential confession and prayer for restoration ( Psalms 102:17 Psalms 102:20 ), extending from Isaiah 63:7-64:12'.
loving-kindnesses . . . praises . . . mercies . . . loving-kindnesses--The plurals and the repetitions imply that language is inadequate to express the full extent of God's goodness.
us--the dispersed Jews at the time just preceding their final restoration.
house of Israel--of all ages; God was good not merely to the Jews now dispersed, but to Israel in every age of its history.
8. he--Jehovah "said," that is, thought, in choosing them as His covenant-people; so "said" ( Psalms 95:10 ). Not that God was ignorant that the Jews would not keep faith with Him; but God is here said, according to human modes of thought to say within Himself what He might naturally have expected, as the result of His goodness to the Jews; thus the enormity of their unnatural perversity is the more vividly set forth.
lie--prove false to Me (compare Psalms 44:17 ).
so--in virtue of His having chosen them, He became their Saviour. So the "therefore" ( Jeremiah 31:33 ). His eternal choice is the ground of His actually saving men ( Ephesians 1:3 Ephesians 1:4 ).
9. he was afflicted--English Version reads the Hebrew as the Keri (Margin), does, "There was affliction to Him." But the Chetib (text) reads, "There was no affliction" (the change in Hebrew being only of one letter); that is, "In all their affliction there was no (utterly overwhelming) affliction" [GESENIUS]; or, for "Hardly had an affliction befallen them, when the angel of His presence saved them" [MAURER]; or, as best suits the parallelism, "In all their straits there was no straitness in His goodness to them" [HOUBIGANT], ( Judges 10:16 , Micah 2:7 , 2 Corinthians 6:12 ).
angel of his presence--literally, "of His face," that is, who stands before Him continually; Messiah ( Exodus 14:19 , Exodus 23:20 Exodus 23:21 , Proverbs 8:30 ), language applicable to no creature ( Exodus 32:34 , Exodus 33:2 Exodus 33:14 , Numbers 20:16 , Malachi 3:1 ).
bare them--( Isaiah 46:3 Isaiah 46:4 , 40:11 , Exodus 19:4 , Deuteronomy 32:11 Deuteronomy 32:12 ).
10. vexed--grieved ( Psalms 78:40 , 95:10 , Acts 7:51 , Ephesians 4:30 , Hebrews 3:10 Hebrews 3:17 ).
he fought--rather, "He it was that fought," namely, the angel of His presence [HORSLEY], ( Lamentations 2:5 ).
11. remembered--Notwithstanding their perversity, He forgot not His covenant of old; therefore He did not wholly forsake them ( Leviticus 26:40-42 Leviticus 26:44 Leviticus 26:45 , Psalms 106:45 Psalms 106:46 ); the Jews make this their plea with God, that He should not now forsake them.
saying--God is represented, in human language, mentally speaking of Himself and His former acts of love to Israel, as His ground for pitying them notwithstanding their rebellion.
sea--Red Sea.
shepherd--Moses; or if the Hebrew be read plural, "shepherds," Moses, Aaron, and the other leaders (so Psalms 77:20 ).
put . . . Spirit . . . within him--Hebrew, "in the inward parts of him," that is, Moses; or it refers to the flock, "in the midst of his people" ( Numbers 11:17 Numbers 11:25 , Nehemiah 9:20 , Haggai 2:5 ).
12. The right hand of Moses was but the instrument; the arm of God was the real mover ( Exodus 15:6 , 14:21 ).
dividing the water--( Nehemiah 9:11 , Psalms 78:13 ).
13. deep--literally, "the tossing and roaring sea."
wilderness--rather, the "open plain" [HORSLEY], wherein there is no obstacle to cause a horse in its course the danger of stumbling.
14. As a beast . . . rest--image from a herd led "down" from the hills to a fertile and well-watered "valley" ( Psalms 23:2 ); so God's Spirit "caused Israel to rest" in the promised land after their weary wanderings.
to make . . . name--(So Isaiah 63:12 , 2 Samuel 7:23 ).
15. Here begins a fervent appeal to God to pity Israel now on the ground of His former benefits.
habitation of . . . holiness--( Isaiah 57:15 , Deuteronomy 26:15 , 2 Chronicles 30:27 , Psalms 33:14 , 80:14 ).
zeal . . . strength--evinced formerly for Thy people.
sounding of . . . bowels--Thine emotions of compassion ( Isaiah 16:11 , Jeremiah 31:20 , 48:36 , Hosea 11:8 ).
16. thou . . . father--of Israel, by right not merely of creation, but also of electing adoption ( Isaiah 64:8 , Deuteronomy 32:6 , 1 Chronicles 29:10 ).
though Abraham . . . Israel--It had been the besetting temptation of the Jews to rest on the mere privilege of their descent from faithful Abraham and Jacob ( Matthew 3:9 , John 8:39 , 4:12 ); now at last they renounce this, to trust in God alone as their Father, notwithstanding all appearances to the contrary. Even though Abraham, our earthly father, on whom we have prided ourselves, disown us, Thou wilt not ( Isaiah 49:15 , Psalms 27:10 ). Isaac is not mentioned, because not all his posterity was admitted to the covenant, whereas all Jacob's was; Abraham is specified because he was the first father of the Jewish race.
everlasting--an argument why He should help them, namely, because of His everlasting immutability.
17. made us to err--that is, "suffer" us to err and to be hardened in our heart. They do not mean to deny their own blameworthiness, but confess that through their own fault God gave them over to a reprobate mind ( Isaiah 6:9 Isaiah 6:10 , Psalms 119:10 , Romans 1:28 ).
Return--( Numbers 10:36 , Psalms 90:13 ).
18. people of . . . holiness--Israel dedicated as holy unto God ( Isaiah 62:12 , Deuteronomy 7:6 ).
possessed--namely, the Holy Land, or Thy "sanctuary," taken from the following clause, which is parallel to this (compare Isaiah 64:10 Isaiah 64:11 , Psalms 74:6-8 ).
thy--an argument why God should help them; their cause is His cause.
19. thine . . . never--rather, "We are Thine from of old; Thou barest not rule over them" [BARNES]. LOWTH translates, "We for long have been as those over whom Thou hast not ruled, who are not called by Thy name"; "for long" thus stands in contrast to "but a little while" ( Isaiah 63:18 ). But the analogy of Isaiah 63:18 makes it likely that the first clause in this verse refers to the Jews, and the second to their foes, as English Version and BARNES translate it. The Jews' foes are aliens who have unjustly intruded into the Lord's heritage.


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Hotelier and Philanthropist Donates to Organization's Capital Expansion Project to Help Accommodate More Children with Life-Threatening Illnesses
KISSIMMEE, Fla. (December 18, 2012) – Orlando hotelier and recognized philanthropist Harris Rosen, president of Rosen Hotels & Resorts, has donated $1 million to Give Kids The World (GKTW) towards the construction of 64 new villas which will accommodate more children with life-threatening illnesses and their families visiting the nonprofit resort for a once-in-a-lifetime dream vacation. The donation, which was made through the Harris Rosen Foundation, will go towards GKTW's $40 million Capital Expansion and Improvement project, which is part of a larger $120 million, four-year Village Campaign.
"Give Kids The World got an early Christmas present this week when I received a phone call that all non-profits dream of getting," said GKTW President Pamela Landwirth. "Mr. Rosen's incredible gift not only jump-starts the fundraising for our new villas, but also provides the inspiration to hope for many more generous gifts in support of our campaign."
Rosen is a widely recognized and respected hotelier, community builder, father and philanthropist who founded Rosen Hotels & Resorts in 1974 before donating 25 acres of land and $10 million to the University of Central Florida in 2002 to develop the Rosen College of Hospitality Management at UCF. Students from Rosen College volunteer regularly at GKTW, following their founder's mantra of giving back to the community. Rosen has a long history of giving to those in need, particularly children.
"I realize what an incredibly fortunate individual I am because I have been able to achieve so much more than I ever imagined, and now I have an opportunity to give back, something I have always wanted to do," said Rosen. "My hope is that others in my position will recognize their duty to engage in what I refer to as 'responsible capitalism' and to use their success and wealth to benefit others, simply because it's the right thing to do."
Every year, GKTW welcomes more than 7,000 families from around the world for a weeklong, cost-free vacation complete with accommodations in whimsical villas, meals, donated attractions tickets, nightly entertainment and more. However, with only 140 villas on the 70-acre resort, nearly 500 of those families must stay off-site at nearby hotels. Rosen's gift will allow more children and their families the opportunity to experience the magic of staying at the whimsical Village where ice cream is served for breakfast, Christmas comes once a week and 6-foot-tall bunny rabbits named Mayor Clayton and Ms. Merry tuck the children in at night.
Today, Rosen had the opportunity to meet one of the families who will be helped because of his gift. The Vandiver Family from Pelham, Ala., is staying at Give Kids The World Village this week as part of 4-year-old Abigail's wish to visit Walt Disney World. Diagnosed with cancer at seven months old, "Abby" has been cancer-free for three and half years. Rosen shared in the family's fun this morning by indulging in ice cream for breakfast – a tradition a Give Kids The World Village – with Abby and siblings Patrick, 10, and Sarah, 7. Afterwards, he joined the children for a ride on the Village's Enchanted Carousel.
Watching her children's faces light up with joy as the carousel spun around, Abby's mother, Amy, remarked, "I stay at home with the children and my husband is a police officer so being [at Give Kids The World Village] is something we could never have afforded on our own. It is truly the vacation of a lifetime."
For more information on GKTW's Village Campaign, please visit: http://www.givekidstheworld.org/campaign/
About Give Kids The World
Give Kids The World Village (GKTW) is a 70-acre, non-profit resort in Central Florida that creates magical memories for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families. GKTW provides accommodations at its whimsical resort, donated attractions tickets, meals and more for a weeklong, cost-free fantasy vacation. With the help of many generous individuals, corporations and partnering wish-granting organizations, Give Kids The World has welcomed more than 120,000 families from all 50 states and over 70 countries. Visit www.gktw.org for more information on GKTW and its mission. For our latest news, visit www.twitter.com/gktwvillage, www.facebook.com/gktwvillage, www.youtube.com/givekidstheworld and follow our blog at www.givekidstheworld.org/blog.
About Rosen Hotels & Resorts:
The Rosen Hotels & Resorts family includes three award-winning convention properties, Rosen Plaza, Rosen Centre and Rosen Shingle Creek, and four leisure properties in the Orlando tourist corridor, including the Quality Inn International, Rosen Inn closest to Universal, Rosen Inn at Pointe Orlando and Clarion Inn Lake Buena Vista. For more information, visit www.rosenhotels.com or call 866-33-ROSEN.


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McKenzie injures knee in Wash High win
Katie Roupe / Observer-Reporter
Shai McKenzie's knee is looked at after injuring it during a play in the second quarter of the game against Charleroi on Friday, September 13.
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Washington's Dequa Isbel interceps a pass intended for Charleroi's Dakota Moorer in the second quarter of the game in Charleroi's endzone.
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Washington's Shai McKenzie runs for 90 yards to get a touchdown leaving Charleroi's Dakota Moorer behind during the first quarter of the game.
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Charleroi's Brennan Matthews passes back the ball to a teammate during the first half of the game against Wash High on Friday, September 13.
CHARLEROI – Washington High School suffered what could be a devastating loss Friday night in the second quarter of a 66-10 Interstate Conference win over Charleroi.
Star running back Shai McKenzie, who is being recruited by more than 30 NCAA Division I football programs, suffered a right knee injury while making a cut on the turf at Cougar Stadium, going down untouched.
Washington head coach Mike Bosnic fears McKenzie suffered an injury to the ACL in his right knee. McKenzie was sent to the hospital for tests Friday night.
"Right now, they aren't sure," said Bosnic. "It didn't look like a serious knee injury but you never know. No one touched him. It looked like he had a clear path to the end zone and next thing you know, he was on the ground. Whatever the diagnosis is, we are going to face it head on and he will be better no matter what."
It took several minutes to get McKenzie to the sideline, where he was unable to put any pressure on his injured leg throughout the remainder of the first half.
McKenzie, who broke Brian Davis' school career rushing record last week, was carted to the Wash High locker room at the half and did not return.
"He's scared," said Bosnic. "I don't think he has ever had a knee injury before and that's a scary thing to have to go through. We will all be with him every step of the way."
Prior to the injury, McKenzie was putting on another stellar performance.
He scored on runs of 64 and 90 yards on the Prexies' first two first plays from scrimmage to give Wash High (3-0, 3-0) a quick 13-0 lead. McKenzie finished with 198 yards and three touchdowns on just six carries.
Despite the big margin of victory, his teammates were concerned only about McKenzie's health moving forward.
"He's not only my teammate; he is my best friend," said Wash High senior Chase Caldwell, who returned an interception for a touchdown in the second quarter. "It made me cry because I don't know how serious it is. He is a leader, and without him, some of us had to step up and be leaders. We have a lot of young guys on the team that couldn't see us be down as a team, so we had to pick it up. "
Without McKenzie to carry the load, junior Malik Wells was called upon. He responded with 125 yards and a pair of touchdowns, including a 72-yard touchdown run shortly after McKenzie was injured.
"Seeing Shai go down was a scary moment for all of us," said Wells. "Being his backup, I just try to soak everything in he teaches me and be there for him in a moment of need. He works so hard in practice and in the games. I learn every day from him. I just had to help pick up the slack."
Jordon West added a pair of rushing touchdowns, while Arthur Long and Kurt Adkins also found the end zone on the ground.
"We are a physical team, and I thought we had a very good night up front," said Bosnic. "Both lines played very well and we set the tone right from the first play."
The Prexies also forced four turnovers. They allowed only one lengthy drive in the first half and held the Cougars to a 21-yard field goal from Sean Cole.
Charleroi (0-3, 0-3) didn't find its way into the end zone until late in the third quarter when Brennan Matthews scored on a quarterback sneak.
"We had a solid game plan defensively," said Caldwell. "We really got on it in practice this week. Coaches stressed a better performance on defense this week and we took it seriously."
McKenzie's injury comes at a bad time for Washington. The Prexies host Yough, a 27-22 loser to Jeannette Friday night, then play the Jayhawks on the road in two weeks.
"We just have to stay focused as a team, no matter who is out there," said Bosnic. "We don't know exactly how serious it is yet, but if it is we have to stay focused as a group. We took a big step this week. We need to continue that."


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Re: Piracy
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Causes of Somali piracy
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WSJ: Stock exchange for pirates
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By AVI JORISCH
Pirates are on a hot streak this season. World-wide, the first quarter of 2011 saw 142 recorded attacks, up from 67 in that time last year. Off the coast of Somalia there were 97, as against 35 last year. Why? Despite some efforts by Western powers to patrol the Horn of Africa, pirates are still able to access capital, as any successful business must.
The world's first pirate stock exchange was established in 2009 in Harardheere, some 250 miles northeast of Mogadishu, Somalia. Open 24 hours a day, the exchange allows investors to profit from ransoms collected on the high seas, which can approach $10 million for successful attacks against Western commercial vessels.
While there are no credible statistics available, reports from various news sources suggest that over 70 entities are listed on the Harardheere exchange. When a pirate operation is successful, it pays investors a share of the profits. According to a former pirate who spoke to Reuters, "The shares are open to all and everybody can take part, whether personally at sea or on land by providing cash, weapons or useful materials. . . . We've made piracy a community activity."
The big player on the Harardheere exchange is a pirate named Mohammed Hassan Abdi, who goes by the name of "Afweyne," or "Big Mouth." Known as the "father of piracy," Abdi and his son Abdiqaadir are in charge of the exchange and are, according to a recent United Nations report, among the best-known pirates in the area. Abdi's boats have hijacked a variety of ships, including the German freighter Hansa Stavanger, which German special forces tried unsuccessfully to liberate in 2009. After a four-month hostage ordeal, the pirates released the ship off the coast of Kenya.
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A crowd collects ransom money from pirates in Harardheere, Somalia.
.Piracy has changed Harardheere from a small fishing village to a town crowded with luxury cars. As local security officer Mohamed Adam put it to Reuters, "Piracy-related business has become the main profitable economic activity in our area and as locals we depend on their output." Mr. Adam claims that the district government gets a cut of every dollar collected by pirates and uses itnaturallyfor schools, hospitals and other public infrastructure.
Cutting off these financial relationships is essential to curbing piracy. The U.S. could begin by instituting, via executive order, a sanctions regime against these rogue actors. Just as the government maintains lists of terrorists, narco-traffickers, weapons proliferators and money launderers, so too should it keep a list of pirates. This would heighten international awareness of piracy and give banks an additional tool to employ against illicit actors. Pirates, like all other criminals, eventually use the banking sector to try to hide their criminal gains.
The U.N. and other international organizationssuch as the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an intergovernmental body that sets standards regarding terrorism finance and money launderingalso have roles to play. For one, the U.N. should expand its current Somalia and Eritrea monitoring committee, which was established in 1992 to implement the U.N. travel ban, asset freeze, and arms embargo on Somalia, as well as the arms embargo on Eritrea. An expanded committee could improve the anti-piracy intelligence-gathering capabilities of its members and track the finances of significant international pirates.
For its part, the FATF could get serious about including piracy within its mission of highlighting how money launderers and terrorists raise and move funds. To date, the organization has never issued a report on piracy. Doing so would prod a variety of international organizations, policy makers, law-enforcement agencies, and banking authorities to grapple seriously with this threat.
There are four banks in Somalia todaythe Central Bank, the Commercial and Savings Bank of Somalia, and the Somali Development Bank (all of which are wholly or partly owned by the government), as well as the independent Universal Bank of Somalia. International financial institutions providing correspondent banking services to the four, or wiring money into or out of the country, should carry out enhanced due diligence on all transactions to make sure they are not related to piracy or the Harardheere stock exchange. In Washington, the Treasury Department could mandate this standard of care by issuing guidance to all American financial institutions.
Piracy increases the cost of international commerce by $12 billion annually, and in Somalia alone more than 20 vessels and 400 hostages are currently being held, according to the International Chamber of Commerce. The U.S. and others have a duty to deploy their financial firepower against this threat.
Mr. Jorisch, a former U.S. Treasury official, is president of the Red Cell Intelligence Group and the author of "Tainted Money: Are We Losing the War on Money Laundering and Terrorism Finance?" (Red Cell IG, 2009).
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ABOARD THE FISHING VESSEL AL MULAHI, in the Gulf of Oman Late on Thursday afternoon, as the American destroyer Kidd loomed alongside this hijacked Iranian dhow, the warships loudspeaker issued a command in Urdu to the dhows frightened Urdu-speaking crew. American sailors stood ready, weapons in hand.
If you have weapons aboard, the voice boomed, put them where we can see them, on the roof of your wheelhouse.
Fifteen Somali pirates were also on board Al Mulahi, crouched and cornered on the very vessel they had seized in November to use as their mother ship. They had knives, a pistol and four assault rifles. But they did not speak Urdu. For a moment, the captors depended on their captives. They asked their Iranian hostages what the American sailors had just said.
One of the hostages, Khaled Abdulkhaled, answered without pause: They said they are about to blow this ship up.
The pirates panicked. Their unity broke down. Each man hoped, variously, to surrender, find cover or hide. Discarding their weapons, nine of them crammed into a small hold beneath the wheelhouse. Six more huddled near the open bow.
Soon, armed American sailors climbed aboard. They spotted the six Somalis on the bow, who did not resist. As more of the boarding team swarmed over the side, the Iranian hostages pointed to where the remaining pirates were hiding. The sailors pulled those men out, one by one, into the light and forced them face down onto the deck.
Al Mulahi was secured. The Iranian hostages had been saved without a shot being fired.
In interviews by two journalists from The New York Times who spent Thursday night on the rescued vessel, the former hostages, the captured pirates and the American sailors guarding them told of a drama on the open ocean: Naval vessels, helicopters and inflatable boats first thwarted a pirate attack and then converged on the pirates roving base, freeing 13 hostages who had expected to die.
The operation was a geopolitical thriller, as the aircraft carrier John C. Stennis, which had been warned not to return to the region by senior Iranian defense officials on Tuesday, answered on Thursday by swiftly organizing the rescue of Iranian hostages not far from Irans coast.
But the rescue was also the dramatic finale to a slow-moving ordeal for the hostages. To survive more than six weeks after their 82-foot gillnetter was captured at gunpoint and converted to a platform for attacks against international shipping, the fishermen relied on calm nerves, prayer, camaraderie and, in the end, duplicity.
Their troubles began in November, shortly after Al Mulahi left its home port of Chabahar, Iran, on a voyage intended to last several weeks. Its captain, Mahmed Younes, was seeking marlin, which he said could fetch about $1.50 a pound. He hoped to fill the vessels freezers with five or six tons of fish before returning home.
But pirates were at sea, too, and hoping for a far larger score.
Not long after leaving port, while transiting the Omani coast, Al Mulahi was approached by a smaller Iranian dhow, the fishing vessel Bayan. Unbeknownst to Al Mulahis crew, the Bayan had been hijacked by Somali pirates. When it came alongside, the pirates appeared on its deck, and fired rifles into the air. Now they had Al Mulahi, too.
The pirates intentions became clear immediately. The Bayan was almost out of fuel, rendering it useless as a mother ship from which the pirates could mount attacks in skiffs against passing ships they hoped to hold for multimillion-dollar ransoms.
The Somalis transferred their equipment onto Al Mulahi. Captain Younes said two of the Bayans crew members had been killed by the pirates, and the rest were exhausted and terrified. But before Al Mulahi pulled away, the Bayans fishermen apologized for carrying the pirates to another boat, and for the fact that they were going free even as Al Mulahis crew was being taken hostage.
Captain Younes, who had been captured by Somali pirates while on a different fishing vessel three years ago, understood. He knew something of a fishing crews helplessness when faced by gunmen at sea. He had survived 25 days that time, he said, and escaped when the fishermen overpowered three pirates on the vessel when the five others left on a skiff to hunt for ships.
As his new period of captivity began, his mind was working. He gave his crew an order: Just comply, he said. With time, they might get a chance.
The pirates, perhaps sensing an obedient crew, did not beat them, the hostages said. They ordered Al Mulahi to set a course to Xaafuun, a port on the northern Somali coast.
After they arrived and anchored the dhow, many of the pirates went ashore, leaving guards and bringing on food, water and, with time, more gunmen to prepare for a high-seas hunt.
Only one of the hostages, Fazel ur Rehman, was allowed onto land. He was ill. The pirates gave him medicine, he said.
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As they waited, the hostages, led by their captain, made a plan. They understood that the Bayan had been released because it ran low on fuel. Captain Younes told the crew members that when they finally set off again, they would surreptitiously dump their diesel in hopes of hastening their release.
About a week ago, with 15 pirates and two small skiffs and outboard engines aboard, the fishing vessel left Xaafuun and turned north toward the Omani coast.
This time of year the sea conditions there are calmer than off the Somali shore, making it easier for pirates in skiffs to chase large vessels and board them, according to Rear Adm. Kaleem Shaukat, the Pakistani officer commanding Combined Task Force 151, an international counterpiracy team working along the African coast.
As they moved north, the fishermen said, they followed their captains plan. We slowly emptied our fuel, dumping it over the side when they were not watching, Mr. Abdulkhaled said.
For a moment, the plan seemed unnecessary. Soon after leaving Xaafuun, one of the ships in the international naval task force, which the hostages described as a French Navy vessel, pulled alongside.
The hostages thought they might be saved. But the French did not have an Urdu speaker on their crew, said the fishermen, who are from eastern Iran, near Pakistan, where many residents speak the language. When the sailors asked in Arabic and English whether Al Mulahi had pirates aboard, the pirates hiding at the hostages feet understood the questions.
The hostages, afraid for their lives, had to answer that they did not. The vessel steamed away. The pirates re-emerged on deck and resumed their hunt.
On Thursday, six of the pirates rode off in one of the skiffs with rifles and their sole rocket-propelled grenade launcher to look for a ship to seize. Finding the motor vessel Sunshine, a 583-foot bulk cargo carrier, they rushed the ship but failed to board when United States Navy helicopters arrived in response to the crews distress signal.
One MH-60 helicopter approached the skiff. A short while later other helicopters began circling Al Mulahi. But the pirates had herded most of the crew members into the forward hold and were themselves hiding below decks. The fishermen could not signal their plight.
The six pirates in the skiff returned later, without weapons, saying they had been briefly detained and had tossed their weapons into the ocean, disposing of evidence and thereby eluding arrest.
They thought they had escaped again, fooling the ship that had stopped them the U.S.S. Mobile Bay, a guided-missile cruiser that is part of the Stenniss strike group just as they had fooled the French.
One of the pirates, Mahmoud Mohammed, said they had a cover story ready if they were approached again. They would tell the Navy that while it might seem suspicious that they were roaming the high seas in a tiny skiff, they had a reason: they were looking for lost nets.
Unknown to the hostages and the pirates, a helicopter from the Mobile Bay was tailing them from afar, out of earshot, keeping watch with long-range optics. By returning and boarding the Iranian-flagged dhow, the six pirates had confirmed the Navys suspicion and given away their floating base.
The Kidd, the flagship of the international counterpiracy task force in the area, was already steaming toward them, to interdict.
But on Al Mulahi, Captain Younes and his fishermen were crestfallen.
Mr. Abdulkhaled worried that the Bayans crew had returned to Iran in November and had told the fishermen of Chabahar that Al Mulahi had been captured by the same pirate band that had killed two of the Bayans fishermen. All these weeks later, he said, everyone probably expected the worst.
Our families probably think we are dead, he said, thinking of his wife and only child.
Then the Kidd appeared. First it was a gray dot on the horizon. But it was moving fast, directly toward them.
Now it was the pirates turn to feel fear. They quickly threw over more rifles and their remaining rockets for the launcher they had ditched, but had to keep a few rifles to maintain control over the fishermen.
Then the Kidd pulled alongside. The sailors called Captain Younes on the radio, but at first spoke to him only in English and Arabic. Just as with the French, the captain could give no information away.
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Then the Kidd switched to Urdu. Captain Younes, without his captors realizing what he was saying, asked for help and gave permission for the Americans to board a critical point of protocol given the tensions between the United States and the Iranian governments.
When the loudspeaker ordered that any weapons be put on the wheelhouse roof, Mr. Abdulkhaled told the pirates his lie: the Americans had said they were about to attack. The pirates resistance suddenly ended. That is when they started shaking, he said.
By the next morning, after the Navy had decided to take the pirates aboard the Kidd and transfer them by helicopter to the Stennis, it was the pirates who were compliant and deflated.
Special Agent Joshua M. Schminky, 39, a Naval Criminal Investigative Service law enforcement liaison for the international counterpiracy task force, stood before the pirates and addressed them. The Americans were going to confiscate the pirates equipment.
This skiff? he said, nodding toward its hull. Now we own it. Thank you very much.
He added: What youre going to do now is put it in the water. Just like you are going to hijack a ship.
The Iranians watched as the pirates stood up, attached an outboard engine to the skiffs stern and began to shove it toward the gunwale, where it would be lowered onto the waves.
Mariners all, the former hostages could not simply watch. They stood and joined in, with Captain Younes calling out orders.
For the pirates, this was the last act aboard Al Mulahi. Already some of them had been ferried by inflatable boat to the Kidd, where Chief Petty Officer Werner C. Mammen 6-foot-5 and 320 pounds, perhaps the largest man they had ever seen stood on the fantail to greet them and take them into shipboard custody.
For Captain Younes, his crew members following orders without gunmen to interfere, the splashing of the skiff onto the surface of the Gulf of Oman signified a moment he had not known would come.
After more than six weeks as a hostage, the captain of the fishing vessel was back in command.
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