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NAIROBI, Kenya -- Pirates chased and shot at a U.S. cruise liner with more than 1,000 people on board but failed to hijack the vessel as it sailed along a corridor patrolled by international warships, a maritime official said Tuesday.
Originally posted by johnsky
It seems in the past, if you fired on a countries ship, it was a declaration of war, regardless of whether it was a countries army that did the firing, or an organization, you would expect an armed response.