Pirates Fire on US Cruise Ship in Hijack Attempt
Pirates Fire on US Cruise Ship in Failed Hijack Attempt; Ship Speeds up, Outruns Bandits
Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, and pirates have taken advantage of the country's lawlessness to launch attacks on foreign shipping from the Somali coast.
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Associated Press writers Katharine Houreld in Nairobi, Kenya, Eileen Ng in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Saeed al-Nahdy in Muscat, Oman, contributed to this report.
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