NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The luxury American cruise ship steaming across the Gulf of Aden with hundreds of well-heeled tourists just might have been too much for Somali pirates to resist. But the six bandits, riding in two skiffs and firing rifle shots at the gleaming ship, were outrun in minutes when the captain of M/S Nautica gunned the engine and sped away, a spokesman for the company said Tuesday. Still, the implications had the pirates hijacked the ship added a new dimension to a piracy scourge.—-Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]
US cruise ship outruns Somali pirates’ guns
By The Associated Press
December 2, 2008