US seamen are being trained to fend off pirates (AP)

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US seamen are being trained to fend off pirates
    (AP)

 

<p>You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginAP - With an alarming number of tankers and cargo ships getting hijacked on the high seas, the nation's maritime academies are offering more training to merchant seamen in how to fend off attacks from pirates armed not with cutlasses and flintlocks but automatic weapons and grenade launchers.</p><br clear="all"/>


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