U.S. flexes muscle in standoff with Somali pirates

2009/04/09 23:23:53 @Reuters: International News

MOGADISHU/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy prepared on Friday to increase pressure on Somali pirates to give up an American ship captain held hostage in a lifeboat in a strategic part of the Indian Ocean for two days. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=7WzdBmi7Xg8:3_5kQg2SEJU:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=7WzdBmi7Xg8:3_5kQg2SEJU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=7WzdBmi7Xg8:3_5kQg2SEJU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=7WzdBmi7Xg8:3_5kQg2SEJU:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=7WzdBmi7Xg8:3_5kQg2SEJU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/7WzdBmi7Xg8" height="1" width="1"/
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