American Sailors Overcome Somali Pirates

The Times reports that American crewmen of that shanghaied freighter overwhelmed their captors and recovered control of the ship.

An American crew has seized back control of a container ship that was commandeered by pirates in the Indian Ocean today, according to the Pentagon.

The military official said the crew was holding one pirate in custody while the others were reported to “be in the water”. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, would not confirm how the Somalis found their way into the ocean.

Somali pirates hijacked the US-flagged container ship off the Horn of Africa, the first such attack on American interests.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6061399.ece