U.S., World: The Somali pirates have been really darn busy since last week
- Four freighters in two days?! Sure, the rescue of Capt. Richard Phillips got all the headlines, but on other fronts, the pirates just keep doing their thing. In the last two days alone, they’ve captured four different freighters with origin points as varied as Egypt and Lebanon.
- An American ship attacked The latest incident involved The Liberty Sun, a ship bringing humanitarian aid to Kenya. That ship was attacked with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons, and suffered damage, but the crew managed to keep them off the ship. source