Somali pirates yesterday launched one of their most audacious attacks by hijacking a US-flagged ship with its 20 American crew.
It was the first time Somali pirates have seized US citizens since attacks from the east African country began to proliferate last August, according to the US navy.
The Pentagon said last night that the crew had retaken the vessel from the hijackers, but John Reinhart, chief executive of Maersk Line, the subsidiary of Denmark's AP Moller-Maersk that owns the ship, declined to comment on what he described as speculation about the situation.
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