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Somalia, that was under the control of Somali pirates. Though multiple shots were fired, including a machine gun barrage on the ship's bridge, the only injury was an operator
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359:Unit Arrest Teams: regional
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987:"Maritiem Digitaal NL"
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377:and technical support.
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