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Officer: Split-second decision to fire on pirates (AP)

12.04.2009 16:19 - category: Worlds and Business: Political News - Source: topstories

Crew members celebrate on the deck of the Maersk Alabama after their captain was released, in Mombasa's port in Kenya, Sunday, April 12, 2009. An American ship captain was freed unharmed Sunday in a swift firefight that killed three of the four Somali pirates who had been holding him for days in a lifeboat off the coast of Africa, U.S. officials said. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)AP - A U.S. military official says Navy Seals and other officers opened fire on three pirates when a Navy commander made a split-second decision that an American hostage's life was in danger.


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