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Philadelphia Inquirer
November 2, 2007
NAIROBI, Kenya - The U.S. Navy said yesterday that it intended to remove pirates from a hijacked Japanese chemical tanker monitored by American warships off the coast of Somalia. The Navy came to the aid of the chemical tanker this week, at one point opening fire to destroy pirate skiffs tied to it.
Negotiations have started for the release of the Japanese tanker, anchored in Somalian waters with 23 crew members from the Philippines, South Korea and Myanmar, said Josefina Villanueva, whose brother Laureano is a Filipino supervisor aboard the Golden Nori.
"The pirates are still on board with the crewmen. They can't leave," said Cmdr. Lydia Robertson, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Fifth Fleet in Bahrain. She said there had been no ransom demand from the pirates.
--AP
November 2, 2007
NAIROBI, Kenya - The U.S. Navy said yesterday that it intended to remove pirates from a hijacked Japanese chemical tanker monitored by American warships off the coast of Somalia. The Navy came to the aid of the chemical tanker this week, at one point opening fire to destroy pirate skiffs tied to it.
Negotiations have started for the release of the Japanese tanker, anchored in Somalian waters with 23 crew members from the Philippines, South Korea and Myanmar, said Josefina Villanueva, whose brother Laureano is a Filipino supervisor aboard the Golden Nori.
"The pirates are still on board with the crewmen. They can't leave," said Cmdr. Lydia Robertson, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Fifth Fleet in Bahrain. She said there had been no ransom demand from the pirates.
--AP