What a messed up former "navy officer." She entrusted nothing less than her life to him, yet he surrendered her without fight. If a man like him ever bothered to even turn off a transponder, let alone prepare for an armed assault.
Life is not a video game.
That a morally messed up judgement. Hearing something like that again, and again, I long stopped wondering why people in the West come to the situation you have now. Spirit, courage and integrity - you must have them!
if anything - it was a logistics mistake on his part - going to and making contact with Indian authorities (which would extradite back to UAE.)
He should have involved professional traffickers - they'd take her anywhere for $400K. Ideally to the closest USA embassy then make some public noise after they got there. If USA was the final destination anyway.
It was completely his failure to craft the operation, and allowing Indian board. Aside from that, would they fire on an American flagged vessel under a dubious tip off from a country with funny reputation if they were to run away from them?
And... man, you don't station anything like a whole brigade on a frigate.
Professional traffickers are unnecessary, she could escape to international waters and adopt a new identity as a tourist who wants to settle.