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Kenya (AP) - A U.S. Navy destroyer helped sailors who retook control
of their vessel Tuesday in a deadly battle with pirates after the
North Korean-flagged ship was hijacked off Somalia, the American
military said.
A helicopter flew from the USS James E. Williams to investigate a
phoned-in tip of a hijacked vessel, and demanded by bridge-to-bridge
radio that the pirates give up their weapons, the military said in a
statement.
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Piracy in Somali waters is nothing new. The island of Socotra, off the Horn
of Africa was poined out to me as a hotbed of pirates more than 50 years
ago when we passed it in a ship of the Royal Navy.
But I do think he hijacking of large merchant ships is a newer development.