Obama's vow to combat piracy comes to light after the kidnapping and rescue of Maersk Alabama Captain Richard Phillips. However, shipping lanes around
Somalia have been plagued by harrassment from Somali pirates for quite sometime now. This is not the first time that seamen have been captured by
these pirates, though it might be the first time an American has been placed in harms way.
The article also reports that other pirates have threatened to get revenge for their three dead comrades after the rescue of Captain Philips on April
12th, 2009. Is this the beginning to another intervention by the United States in the affairs of another nation (if you can call Somalia such)?
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