It seems timely to refresh this thread:

"Pirates hijacked the 17,500-tonne Maersk Alabama early Wednesday about 640 kilometres east of the Somalian capital of Mogadishu, but the 20 U.S. crew members later retook control of the ship. The crew had also captured one of the four pirates that hijacked the ship, and held him for 12 hours.

A later attempt to swap the captive pirate for the ship's captain went awry — the pirate was freed while Captain Richard Phillips wasn't. An officer aboard the Alabama, Ken Quinn, told CNN that the pirates had reneged on an agreement to release Phillips in exchange for one of their own.

The pirates instead made off with Phillips on a small lifeboat."

Here's a link to the most recent report: Click here for report

Interesting!

Charley Noble

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