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Danish forces free ship captured by pirates
 Followup.Ay-Pee article. Rest at link. I thought this was funny: He dispatched a team from Denmark's elite Frogmen unit. They bounced across the waves in a dinghy and scaled the sides of the cargo ship using grappling hooks. They secured the bridge, released the crew and then launched an hours-long search for the pirate the crew had seen. They found no one. Captain, you'll find no pirates aboard this vessel. "I don't know if he jumped overboard when he saw the helicopter or later when he saw the special forces," Termansen said. "We searched the ship for hours and didn't find anybody." "Where's Ryker's weight belt?" Cmdr. Mikael Bill, head of the Danish Admiralty in western Denmark, said he did not believe there were any pirates onboard the Antigua and Barbuda-flagged ship when the special forces arrived. "It jumped overboard." "It is our clear understanding that there were no hijackers on board but our helicopter had deterred an action," he said. "Great. The paperwork's easier that way." Posted by: gorb 2010-02-06 |
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