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Pirates holding their hands up to soldiers of the French vessel La Somme off the Somalia coast, Wednesday ,Oct. 7, 2009. A NATO task force, which has utilized a number of Canadian warships in its multinational fleet, is providing security for merchant ships that have been facing increased attacks by Somali pirates.
AP Photo / Olivier Amalvict / ECPAD / French Navy
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This unlocated photo released Wednesday Oct. 7, 2009 by the French Navy shows French vessel La Somme in Feb. 2007. Somali pirates fired on a French navy vessel after apparently mistaking it for a commercial boat, the French military said.
AP / Thibaut Claisse / ECPAD / French Navy
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The Alakrana, a Basque tuna fishing boat, is seen from a Spanish navy aircraft while sailing off Somalia's coast on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009. It was boarded by Somali pirates when it was working in waters 800 miles away from the nearest navy escort.
AP / Spain Defense Ministry
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Somali suspected pirates stand behind the bars at state security court in Sana'a Yemen, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009 on charges of piracy and hijacking of Yemeni oil tanker enroute from Mukala to Aden port city in April 2009.
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A Yemeni policeman guards Somali suspected pirates to the prison vehicle at state security court in Sana'a Yemen, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009 on charges of piracy and hijacking of Yemeni oil tanker enroute from Mukala to Aden port city in April 2009.
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Seven pirates aboard a skiff, hold up their hands a Turkish commandos approach their boat in the Gulf of Aden, off Somalia on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009.
AP Photo / Turkish Military
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Somali security forces take part in a mock detention of pirates during a training drill at a beach in Mogadishu, Somalia, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009. Pirate-plagued Somalia has finished training 500 recruits to form the backbone of its first naval force for nearly two decades. The country currently relies on international warships to police its lawless shores under a U.N. mandate. But they have not managed to prevent Somali pirates from attacking scores of ships this year so far.
AP Photo / Mohamed Sheikh Nor
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Somali new navy forces drill on the seas during operation related how to deal with the pirates Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009. Last year pirates captured over 100 ships.
AP Photo / Mohamed Sheikh Nor
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Turkish commandos are seen with seven pirates in the Gulf of Aden, off the Somali coast, Friday, July 31, 2009. The Turkish military said navy commandos aboard a Turkish frigate, part of a NATO force patrolling the seas, have captured seven pirates. Commandos raided the skiff Friday morning upon a request to block it before it could attack a ship. The military did not provide details on what ship the pirates allegedly planned to attack.
AP Photo / Turkish Military HO
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An armed Kenyan police officer guards nine suspected Somali pirates at the Port of Mombasa's police station where they were booked in after disembarking from an Italian warship MV Maestrale at the port of Mombasa, Kenya Thursday, June 25, 2009. The suspected pirates were arrested by the Italian naval officers along the Gulf of Eden as they attempted to hijack a cargo ship MV Marie K which was headed to Ireland from Abu Dhabi.
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A crew member aboard Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force supply ship 8,150-ton AOE-423 Tokiwa watches JMSDF destroyer 4,650-ton DD-113 Sazanami during underway replenishment in the Gulf of Aden Saturday, June 6, 2009. Japan has dispatched Sazanami and 4,550-ton DD-106 Samidare to the Somali coast to join an international anti-piracy mission, its first policing action overseas.
AP Photo / Kyodo News
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Sailors and Royal Marines from the Royal Navy frigate HMS Portland, intercept and board one of two pirate vessel during counter-piracy operations in coordination with a Spanish martime patrol aircraft, in the Gulf of Aden, off the coast of Somalia, Tuesday, June 2, 2009. The two pirate vessels which were found to be carrying extra barrels of fuels, grappling hooks, and a cache of weapons including rocket propelled grenades, machine guns and ammunition, were subsequently sunk by gunfire.
AP Photo / Alex Cave, Royal Navy, HO
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A soldier onboard Swedish ship HMS Malmo aims his machine gun at a boat with suspected pirates, in the Gulf of Aden, Somalia, Tuesday, May 26, 2009. Sweden's Navy says one of its ships detained seven suspected pirates after stopping them from capturing a cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden.
AP Photo / Scanpix Sweden / Sgt. Mats Nystrom, Combat Camera, Swedish Armed Forces
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A team from the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer towing the lifeboat from the Maersk Alabama to Boxer to be processed for evidence after the successful rescue of Capt. Richard Phillips on Monday, April 13, 2009. Challenging a global aversion to guns aboard ships, France has put troops on tuna boats in the Indian Ocean, and Belgium is offering military units to its merchant vessels off the Horn of Africa.
AP Photo / U.S. Navy, Petty Officer 2nd Class Jon Rasmussen
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The Naval Boarding Party from HMCS Winnipeg board a dhow and tree skiff that matches the description of a vessel that reportedly opened fire on a merchant vessel in a shipping lane in the Gulf of Aden on April 9, 2009.
Warrant Officer Carole Morissette / Canadian Forces Combat Camera
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An HMCS Winnipeg rigid hulled inflatable boat RHIB investigates a skiff loaded with people in the Gulf of Aden April 5th 2009.
Corporal Rick Ayer / Formation Halifax Services, Nova Scotia
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