04-08-2009, 04:50 PM
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barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy.
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 23,401
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Another update
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NAIROBI, Kenya – The American crew of a hijacked U.S.-flagged ship retook control of the vessel from Somali pirates Wednesday but the captain was still being held hostage in a lifeboat, according to crew members.
U.S. officials said an American warship and a half dozen other ships were headed to the scene.
Kevin Speers, a spokesman for Maersk Lines Limited, confirmed that the crew had the Maersk Alabama and were unharmed but the captain was being held by pirates off the cargo ship.
"They're on another boat," he said. He gave no other details.
The second in command, Shane Murphy of Seekonk, Massachusetts, called his wife at 10 a.m EDT and told her that pirates had taken over the ship before dawn local time, she said.
Murphy said that pirates then had taken away the captain and he was now in charge, Serena Murphy, 31, told The Associated Press from her front doorstep.
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