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Archive Home > 2009 > April > 12 > U.S. cargo ship reaches Kenya - minus its kidnapped captain

U.S. cargo ship reaches Kenya - minus its kidnapped captain

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
April 12, 2009

MOMBASA, Kenya — Cheering and guarded by Navy Seals, the crew of an American ship reached a Kenyan port Saturday evening without their captain, still held hostage by Somali pirates in a lifeboat hundreds of miles from shore. Capt. Richard Phillips, 53, of Underhill, Vt., was seized....

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