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Mid shot of pirates being escorted out of police vehicle2. Wide shot of pirates sitting in the court room waiting for the magistrateUS ship attacked by Somali pirates...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eSeven Somali pirates arraigned in court\u003cbr/\u003eMombasa, Kenya - 9 Apr 2009\u003cbr/\u003e1. Mid shot of pirates being escorted out of police vehicle\u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide shot of pirates sitting in the court room waiting for the magistrate\u003cbr/\u003eUS ship attacked by Somali pirates in port\u003cbr/\u003eMombasa, 12 April 2009\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of Maersk Alabama\u003cbr/\u003e4. Ship's name on stern (Maersk Alabama - Norfolk, Virginia) with crew raising US flag on jack staff\u003cbr/\u003eHijacked vessel MV Seahorse brought safely back to port\u003cbr/\u003eMombasa, 28 April 2009\u003cbr/\u003e5. Various shots of M.V Sea Horse arriving in Mombasa\u003cbr/\u003eShip hijacked off Somali coast is released\u003cbr/\u003eBrussels - 28 June 2009\u003cbr/\u003e6. Close of Pompei ship as seen on media screen - DATE AND EXACT LOCATION OF PHOTO UNKNOWN\u003cbr/\u003e7. Close of Pompei ship as seen on media screen\u003cbr/\u003eKenya Liberty Sun\u003cbr/\u003eMombasa - 16 April 2009\u003cbr/\u003e8. Various of Liberty Sun being escorted into harbour by pilot boat \u003cbr/\u003eUS Navy hands over bodies of three Somali pirates\u003cbr/\u003eBossaso, 30 April 2009\u003cbr/\u003e9. US Navy forces handing over the pirate bodies to Puntland security forces \u003cbr/\u003e10. Puntland security forces with their boat, carrying the bodies of the killed pirates coming into port to Bossaso seaport\u003cbr/\u003eKenya Piracy\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television embed on USS Arleigh Burke during anti-piracy training\u003cbr/\u003eIndian Ocean - 25 June 2009\u003cbr/\u003eOn board USS Arleigh Burke in the Indian Ocean, about 100 nautical miles (115.16 miles; 185.2 kilometres) from the Seychelles - 25 June 2009\u003cbr/\u003e11. Five-inch gun firing\u003cbr/\u003e12. US sailors firing a .50 calibre machine gun\u003cbr/\u003e13. Commander Brian Moum, Captain of the Arleigh Burke, looking through binoculars\u003cbr/\u003eOn April 9th 2009 seven Somali pirates were arraigned in a court in the Kenyan port of Mombasa after being handed over to the Kenyan authorities by the German Navy a day earlier. \u003cbr/\u003eThe week before, the pirates had attacked a German military supply ship, which returned fire and pursued the seven pirates.\u003cbr/\u003eIt then managed to detain them with help of other ships participating in the anti-piracy mission off the Horn of Africa.\u003cbr/\u003ePiracy is rampant off Somalia, which has not had a functioning government for 18 years. \u003cbr/\u003eIn the last year, pirates have captured trawlers, small fishing boats, cruise ships and even a cargo ship laden with heavy weapons. \u003cbr/\u003eMany of the pirates have shifted their operations down the Somali coastline from the Gulf of Aden to escape naval warship patrols, which have had some success in preventing attacks in the Gulf of Aden.\u003cbr/\u003ePirates travel in open skiffs with outboard engines, working with larger ships that tow them far out to sea. \u003cbr/\u003eThey use satellite navigational and communications equipment, and have an intimate knowledge of local waters, clambering aboard commercial vessels with ladders and grappling hooks.\u003cbr/\u003eOn April 12th negotiations continued for the freedom of Captain Richard Phillips, the American ship captain of the Maersk Alabama, captured by Somali pirates off the East Africa coast.\u003cbr/\u003eOn April 11th, the nineteen American sailors who escaped the pirate hijacking reached safe harbour, arriving to the Kenyan port of Mombasa. \u003cbr/\u003eWith a throng of reporters shouting questions from shore, the crew described an ordeal that began with Somali pirates hauling themselves onto the deck from a small boat bobbing on the surface of the Indian Ocean far below.\u003cbr/\u003ePhillips was taken hostage after surrendering himself to the pirates to safeguard his men, crew members said.\u003cbr/\u003eThe 53 year-old captain is being held in an enclosed lifeboat by four pirates being closely watched by US warships in an increasingly tense standoff.\u003cbr/\u003eThe U.S. Navy has assumed that the pirates in the lifeboat would try to get it to shore, even though the vessel apparently has no fuel and is drifting. \u003cbr/\u003eA Pentagon spokesman said negotiations were ongoing.\u003cbr/\u003ePhillips' crew were still on board the freighter on April 12th, moored at the quayside in Mombasa, whilst the FBI investigates the attack. \u003cbr/\u003eThe shipping line said on April 11th it was not clear when they would be allowed home.\u003cbr/\u003eIn a separate incident, other bandits, among the hundreds who have made the Gulf of Aden the world's most dangerous waterway, seized an Italian tugboat off Somalia's north coast on April 11th as it was pulling barges, a spokeswoman at NATO's Northwood maritime command centre outside London said. \u003cbr/\u003eA piracy expert said the two hijackings did not appear related.\u003cbr/\u003eSomali pirates are holding about a dozen ships with more than 200 crew members, according to the Malaysia-based International Maritime Bureau, a piracy watchdog group. \u003cbr/\u003eOn April 16th an American cargo ship damaged by grenades and automatic gunfire in a pirate attack arrived safely to the Kenyan port of Mombasa, complete with its supply of food aid.\u003cbr/\u003eThe black and red Liberty Sun sailed into the port early in the morning local time but television pictures from the scene could not immediately reveal the damage from the failed assault that did not harm its 20-member crew.\u003cbr/\u003ePirates launched four rocket-propelled grenades, while and bullets pierced its bridge structure and blew out some windows, a US official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak about the private ship.\u003cbr/\u003eThe damage did not affect the ability to navigate by the crew, which barricaded itself into the engine room.\u003cbr/\u003eThe military says a US destroyer was sent to the rescue but the pirates left before it arrived.\u003cbr/\u003eOn April 28th the Togo-flagged MV Sea Horse arrived in Mombasa port, after reportedly being hijacked by pirates.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe freighter was allegedly hijacked on April 14th off the Somali coast after it was surrounded by several pirate skiffs.\u003cbr/\u003eBernard Odemba of the Mombasa Port Authority said the captain of the Sea Horse had told him they had been hijacked about 5 weeks ago, but at this stage the reason for the discrepancy in the timing of the hijacking cannot be verified.\u003cbr/\u003eIt is also not known under what circumstances the ship came to be allowed to dock at Mombasa.\u003cbr/\u003eOn April 30th American naval forces handed Somali authorities the bodies of three suspected pirates, officials said, after US snipers shot the trio earlier this month during a standoff over an American hostage.\u003cbr/\u003eThe sole surviving pirate suspect from the April 8th attack on the US-flagged Maersk Alabama is in custody in the US facing piracy charges.\u003cbr/\u003eLieutenant Colonel Mohamed Abdulle Mohamed, the chief of security in the country's northern Bossaso port, said regional authorities sent a small boat to collect the wooden coffins containing the bodies from a warship stationed around 4 miles (6.5 kilometres) off the coast.\u003cbr/\u003eMohamed added the Americans said they had been doing DNA tests on the bodies during the past few days.\u003cbr/\u003eA spokeswoman for the Bahrain-based US Fifth Fleet declined to comment on possible DNA testing, but confirmed the bodies were transferred to Somali police.\u003cbr/\u003eThe three men, along with the fourth suspect Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse, dominated the world's television screens for days following their attack on the Alabama and the standoff over the ship's captain, Richard Phillips, who 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