Somali Piracy News Updates — November 18, 2009
NAIROBI, Kenya — Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama on Wednesday for the second time in seven months, though private guards on board the U.S.-flagged ship repelled the attack with gunfire and a high-decibel noise device.
A U.S. surveillance plane was monitoring the ship as it continued to its destination on the Kenyan coast, while a pirate said that the captain of a ship hijacked Monday with 28 North Korean crew members on board had died of wounds.
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Maersk Alabama repels Somali pirates in second attack — Christian Science Monitor
Pirates Attack Maersk Alabama Again — New York Times
Maersk Alabama Evades Second Pirate Attack — Wall Street Journal
Second pirate attack on Maersk Alabama foiled — USA Today
U.S. ship fends off second pirate attack — CNN
Somali Pirates : Maersk Alabama Attacked, Fights Back — Eagle Speak
Somali pirates get $3.3M ransom, free 36 hostages — AP
Spain pays £2m ransom to pirates for release of 36 hostages — Daily Mail
Somali pirates take $3M in ransom; free 36 Spanish hostages held for seven weeks on tuna boat — New York Daily News
Spanish opposition questions pirate ransom — Financial Times
Somalia to get EU training force to counter Islamist insurgents — Christian Science Monitor
Video: Hunting pirates from the UK – Global Post
Greater efforts needed on land to fight piracy off Somali coast: UN chief — China Daily
U.S. And Seychelles Piracy Walks The Plank — UAVs The Quiet Success — Sat News
Somali piracy’s economic impact — BBC
Guidance vague on dealing with lawlessness on the high seas — Times Online
Somali piracy threat in the Indian Ocean – a timeline — The Telegraph
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