They were using the moonlight as it’s still quite bright.” “They attacked at night, which was very unusual. “There was only three minutes between the alarm and the hijack,” Fernandes told Reuters aboard the warship. as it travelled through the Gulf of Aden. Vincent and the Grenadines-flagged Irene E.M. NATO Lieutenant Commander Alexandre Fernandes said the Portuguese warship Corte-Real had received a pre-dawn distress call from the St. and French special forces have killed five pirates. and Togo-flagged MV Sea Horse were a clear sign pirate gangs have not been deterred by two raids in recent days in which U.S. The capture of the Greek-owned MV Irene E.M. Navy ship, in this picture taken on October 8, 2008. Pirates leave a merchant vessel (not shown) for the Somali shore, while under observation by a U.S.
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