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Lindsay Lohan Embraces Lesser Known Role: Art MuseThis tackles a different part of who she is and what she is and how she projects herself," "First Point" director Richard Phillips told ABCNews.com. "It's not fashion photography, it's not mainstream film." Phillips and Lohan met in May 2011
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Anti-Pirate Software Tracks Risks at High Seaschange -- at least for movie-goers. Columbia Pictures just purchased the rights to a film about Richard Phillips , the Maersk Alabama captain who fought off Somali pirates in 2009. Hollywood hero Tom Hanks has been enlisted to play Phillips
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Osama Bin Laden Dead: The Navy SEALs Who Hunted and Killed Al Qaeda Leaderfront lines of freedom and we are truly blessed." In 2009, another SEAL team was instrumental in rescuing the American captain of the cargo ship Maersk Alabama from armed pirates off the coast of Somalia. On that mission, SEAL snipers fired perfect shots -- from the deck of
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Pirates Again Target Maersk Alabamathe ship's captain authorized and the captain ordered aimed Attack on Maersk Alabama Led to Hostage Involving Capt . Richard Phillips In April 2009, the Maersk Alabama was hijacked the ship's captain , Phillips
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Bodies of Americans Killed By Somali Pirates Headed Hometargeted an American vessel - the Maersk Alabama in 2009 - the heist ended kidnapping and brutalizing Capt . Richard Phillips , who was held hostage for scrambled up the stern of Maersk Alabama . The U.S. Fifth Fleet
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Former Bush Administration Official Ari Fleischer Urges Obama To Retaliate Against Somali Pirates
recently sentenced to 33 years in prison for his involvement in the 2009 hijacking of a U.S. shipping vessel, the Maersk Alabama . U.S. forces intervened and saved the life of the Alabama’s captain . Pirate activity has been on the rise in East African waters over the last few years.
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Four Americans Captured by Pirates Killedtargeted an American vessel - the Maersk Alabama in 2009 - the heist ended kidnapping and brutalizing Capt . Richard Phillips , who was held hostage for scrambled up the stern of Maersk Alabama . The U.S. Fifth Fleet
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Warship and Helicopters Tracking Yacht Hijacked by Somali Piratestargeted an American vessel - the Maersk Alabama in 2009 - the heist ended kidnapping and brutalizing Capt . Richard Phillips , who was held hostage for scrambled up the stern of Maersk Alabama . The U.S. Fifth Fleet
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Warship Tracking Yacht Hijacked by Somali Pirates
years in prison for kidnapping and brutalizing Capt . Richard Phillips , who was held hostage for five days in 2009 when pirates armed with AK-47s scrambled up the stern of Maersk Alabama . The U.S. Fifth Fleet, based in Bahrain
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Somali Pirates Seize a Yacht, the Quest, with Four Americans on Boardyears in prison for kidnapping and brutalizing Captain Richard Phillips , who was held hostage for five days in 2009 when armed with AK-47's scrambled up the stern of Maersk Alabama . The U.S. Fifth Fleet, based in Bahrain
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Accused Somali Pirates Head to Trial in US Courtclients are convicted, they would be subject to a much harsher penalty than the only man convicted in the taking of the Maersk Alabama in 2009. Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse, the ringleader and sole survivor of the thwarted attack that saw the ship's captain being held captive for four days, pleaded guilty to hijacking and kidnapping charges in New York. He faces a minimum
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Marines Recapture Ship From Piratesintercede in an act of piracy. In April of 2009, Navy SEAL snipers shot and killed three suspected pirates holding the captain of the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama hostage on a lifeboat. The difference in that operation was that the military acted after both the crew and the pirates
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Captain's Book Details How He Foiled and Infuriated Somali Pirates
When pirates attacked Capt . Richard Phillips ' ship last April, he after they were aboard the Maersk Alabama and were spraying the captain 's bridge with gunfire The hijacking of the Maersk Alabama on April 8, 2009, however
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U.S. Navy Ship Grabs More Pirates, Lets Them Gospeed and firing flares, according to a press release by the Combined Maritime Piracy Task Force. After the ship's captain radioed for help, a Swedish patrol aircraft spotted the pirates and the USS Farragut dispatched its own plane to monitor was the lone survivor of an attempt to kidnap Capt. Richard Philips after a bungled attempt to hijack his ship, the Maersk Alabama .
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High Sea Piracy Takes Bloody Turn
long later, he said, the captain died. It was the 200th pirate to hijack the US freighter Maersk Alabama . It was the second time the able to take the ship's captain hostage and levy ransom demands quickly turned tail when the Maersk Alabama opened fire. But many incidents
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Maersk Alabama Battles Pirates for Second Time20 members aboard the Maersk Alabama are now "safe and secure pirates hijacked the Maersk Alabama and held the ship's captain Richard Phillips hostage on a lifeboat sailor who was on the Maersk Alabama during the first pirate
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U.K. Couple Confirm They Are in Pirates' Custody
but warn that if naval forces launch a rescue effort similar to the that in the Maersk Alabama hijacking , when the pirates holding Captain Richard Phillips were killed, they will harm the Chandlers. "They are old and we will take care
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Obama Tells Servicemembers He Won’t “Rush” on Afghansitan
including the rescue mission and safe return of Captain Richard Phillips who was held hostage by Somali pirates earlier this closing, the President recounted the story of Navy Captain Michael Scott Speicher who disappeared in the Persian
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Congress Fails to Act as Thousands Collect Their Last Unemployment Checkskind of emergency was that? But former hardworking Americans like myself face evictions and home loss," said Filcek. Richard Phillips of Rockaway Park, N.Y. collected his last check this week. He doesn't know how his family will survive. "I sit
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The Fight Against Piracy Spreads Into the Indian Ocean
successfully hijacked the Maersk Alabama , a U.S.-flagged cargo and rescued the ship's captain . Admiral Mike Mullen Morning America that the Maersk Alabama incident led him to order where they might board. The Maersk Alabama incident was a clear message relationships," said Royal Navy Captain Keith Blount, a British
