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French navy captures 11 suspected Somali pirates
May 3, 2009, 12:08 GMT
Paris - The French Navy has seized 11 suspected pirates off the coast of Somalia, Paris confirmed Sunday, while divulging few other details.
The Defence Ministry said the suspects were armed with, among other weapons, a missile launcher. The French naval vessel involved was the frigate Nivose. Further details were not given.
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Arvin Gumato ParejaMay 5th, 2009 - 08:32:56
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.
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