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This also. Without hostages the pirates are open to a world of hurt. Here's to hoping the Somalian pirates won't need to be as desperate by the time these ships set sail.

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Without hostages, if they can override the piloting, they have a bunch of cargo with no lives attached.

And with little reason for the local navy to not come in guns blazing.

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