Pirates hijack U.S.-bound tanker
Posted: December 1, 2009 at 5:24 a.m.
Somali pirates seized a tanker carrying more than $20 million of crude oil from Saudi Arabia to the United States in the increasingly dangerous waters off East Africa, an official said Monday, an attack that could pose a huge environmental or security threat.
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