NAIROBI, Kenya - Somali pirates captured a Dutch ship in the Gulf of Aden on Thursday and a U.S. military supply ship evaded an armed attack by pirates in the same region, one of the world's busiest and most dangerous waterways. The Netherlands Antilles-flagged MV Marathon was seized 115 miles (185 kilometers) southeast of the Yemeni port of Mukalla, according to Lt. Cmdr. Virginia Newman, spokeswoman for the Bahrain-based Combined Maritime Forces, which is made of 23 countries trying to fight high-seas piracy. "The cargo was coke, a type of fuel-like coal," Newman said. She said the...
photo: USMC file/Sgt. Michael K. Kropiewnicki
