Video shows Somali pirate attack

Published: 6 May 2009 y., Wednesday
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The U.S. government released dramatic amateur video of a Somali pirate attack on the Liberty Sun last month in the Gulf of Aden. Pirates fired machine guns and rocket propelled grenades at the American cargo ship – which was to able to escape.

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