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Default Somali pirates attempted to hijack

On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 16:47:20 +0100, "Willem Van der Voort"
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Job Mail a / b of the album received December 31, 2009 - 19.43 h

This is a few days ago. The Dutch master is reported below

Yesterday (December 30) was a day that I will not soon forget: Somali
pirates attempted to hijack our ship,
but fortunately she did not succeed.
I had on December 29 the usual monthly security meeting with the entire
crew.

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Thanks for posting this. I found it interesting although a bit hard to
interpret.