miércoles, 4 de febrero de 2009

US seamen are being trained to fend off pirates

With an alarming number of tankers and cargo ships getting hijacked on the high seas, the nation's maritime academies are offering more training to merchant seamen in how to fend off attacks from pirates armed not with cutlasses and flintlocks but automatic weapons and grenade launchers.

The full story is here:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/02/02/national/a113706S42.DTL

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