foxnews.com - 10/14/2008
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008 MOGADISHU, Somalia Soldiers from a semiautonomous Somali region, their guns blazing, freed a Panama-flagged cargo ship from pirates Tuesday as other pirates failed to act on their threat to blow up an arms-laden Ukrainian ship if no ransom was paid. Relatives ...
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Somali Pirates Release Hijacked Ship
PoliGazette —
... ‘Soldiers of a regional government, with guns blazing, freed a cargo ship Tuesday that pirates had held off the Somali coast for five days, according to an official from the region,’
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Pirates Back Down
Gates of Vienna —
Not everything is going the Somali pirates’ way. One hijacked ship has just been freed by military action — Somali military action, yet! — and another group of pirates has failed to make good on their threat to blow up the Ukrainian ship full of T-72 tanks if their demands weren’t met. According to Fox News: Soldiers from a semiautonomous Somali region, their guns blazing, freed a Panama-flagged cargo ship from pirates Tuesday as other pirates failed to act on their threat to blow up an arms-laden Ukrainian ship if no ransom was ...
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