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FBI Joins Navy In Pirate Standoff

by Melissa Block, NPR
April 9, 2009

FBI hostage negotiators joined U.S. Navy efforts today to free an American cargo ship captain held captive on a lifeboat by Somali pirates. A U.S. destroyer and a spy plane kept a close watch in the high-seas standoff near the Horn of Africa.

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  • All Things Considered, April 9, 2009
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