Somali pirates vowed "revenge" against the US after Navy snipers killed three of their number this week. But in the Indian Ocean today, it was another story. Pirates fired upon the American cargo ship, the Liberty Sun, with bullets and rockets; somehow, the vessel escaped. Meantime, the French Defense Ministry says one of its warships captured 11 pirates on a so-called "mother ship" off the coast of Kenya. Shashank Bengali is Africa correspondent for the McClatchy Newspapers.
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