"Three Shots."

US commander explains how the pirate hostage situation was resolved.



The description he gives of the conditions under which the three shots were fired makes this sound a little fishy...

There are three factors which make this highly unlikely, if not impossible.

1) The pirates allegedly "presented themselves." Why would all three hostage takers move from cover at the same time?

2) It was night. Sure, there are such things as night-vision scopes, but it increases the difficulty of the shot by a measurable degree.

3) From one boat - listing in the ocean - to another, also bobbing up and down. Vessels such as lifeboats tend to pitch and yaw unpredictably even in small waves, and this would also have increased the chances that the SEALS would be off target on at least one of their shots.

Let alone that all three shots must have been fired very close together, each one was also a fatal wound (head shot). This is either a miracle, or the SEALS are using tactics that the general public aren't aware of.

Update:

Here is a more detailed explanation of the pirate-take down, but offers another mystery;

The 'hatch' the are referring to looks quite small, and as I said before, it seems unlikely that all three hostage takers presented themselves while holding the AK-47 to Pillips' back.