Well, this should be interesting:
[QUOTE]B[/B] -- The crew of a U.S.-flagged container ship has retaken control of the ship from pirates but its captain is being held hostage, the freighter's second officer said Wednesday.
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The guided-missile destroyer USS Bainbridge, part of the allied fleet that patrols the waterway, is headed to the area to assist, the U.S. Navy reported. Quinn said his sailors were trying to hold the pirates off for a few more hours, "and then we'll have a warship here to help us."[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/08/ship.hijacked/index.html[/url]
Saw this on the news this morning, at which point an analyst opined that this would be much ado about nothing, that either the shipping company or its insurer would pay a ransom and that would be that -- that pirates taking control of ships in this region and holding them for ransom was so common as to be a strictly business transaction, and once that transaction was complete, everyone would likely just go on their merry way. Kinda doubt it's going to end that way this time.