Pirates, ship owners negotiating
An official at Somalia’s foreign ministry says negotiations are taking place between the Somali pirates who hijacked a Ukrainian cargo ship laden with battle tanks and the ship’s owners.
The hijacking last week of the ship MV Faina – carrying 33 Soviet-made T-72 tanks, rifles and heavy weapons U.
An official at Somalia’s foreign ministry says negotiations are taking place between the Somali pirates who hijacked a Ukrainian cargo ship laden with battle tanks and the ship’s owners.
The hijacking last week of the ship MV Faina – carrying 33 Soviet-made T-72 tanks, rifles and heavy weapons U.S. defense officials said included rocket launchers – was the highest-profile act of piracy in the dangerous waters off Somalia this year.
The ship is now surrounded by U.S. warships keeping the pirates from taking the weapons off the ship.
Brief by The Associated Press
