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Maersk Alabama repels 2nd pirate attack

By Associated Press
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 -
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NAIROBI, Kenya — Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama today for the second time in seven months, though private guards on board the U.S.-flagged ship repelled the attack with gunfire and a high-decibel noise device.

A U.S. surveillance plane was monitoring the ship as it continued to its destination on the Kenyan coast, while a pirate said that the captain of a ship hijacked Monday with 28 North Korean crew members on board had died of wounds.

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TheBigLou
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Ready, aim, FIRE!!!
 
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nomorehacks
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Thank God this happened off the coast of Africa. For if it happened off the coast of Boston you would have liberals screaming bloody murder and Deval offering the pirates free tuition at any Mass college.
 
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SouthBostonMan
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With satellites and drones, this should be very simple... one; they're spotted getting in their little rag tag boats, two; they depart the docks, three; we "take them out." Period!
 
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franktalk
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You know, we always chastise poor reporting skills on the part of herald reporters, but this is the AP! Give me a break. The biggest question that most people would have about this concerns whether or not the same captian and crew were on this ship. The AP reporter here does not even address it. More proof the newspaper biz is fading fast. Then they expect us to now pay for it online. Yeah, that'll happen. They can't get advertisers to pay for it, so they think maybe we're all dumb enough to. And this IS Massachusetts..maybe we ARE dumb enough.
 
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plt3012
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I guess from this and other recent news reports things haven't changed much.
 
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Bugi1 replying to nomorehacks
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Coffee out my nose.

In the 18th century pirates were executed in Boston and their bodies hung on a gibbet on Nix's Mate the small island near the entrance to Boston Harbor.

Times have changed.
 
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rm
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and WHY do we let this happen...? AGAIN...?

oh. NOW I remember...

We're back in the days of Jimmy Carter. Weak President leads country into the land of the weak.

I'm waiting for the next Iranian Hostage crisis, what with Barry's leadership, has to be in the works.

2012 COULDN'T come fast enough for me.
 
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Heraldreader123
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The only way to stop this nonsence is to wipe them out boat by boat. Just start killing them and it will stop real quick. Once they see 3 or 4 pirate ships and crew wasted then they will definately stop. Southbostonman is totally right.
 
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contractor
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In Massachusetts, the same pirates are reelected every two years by the mindless electorate.
 
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DemCretin
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In todays world Political Correctness overrides commonsense every time. So get use to it!
 
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