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NAIROBI, Kenya — Special forces on a Portuguese warship seized explosives from suspected Somali pirates after thwarting an attack on an oil tanker, but later freed the 19 men.
It was the first time NATO forces found pirates armed with raw explosives, Lt. Cmdr. Fernandes said from the Portuguese frigate the Corte-Real, which responded to the attack.
Hours later and hundreds of miles away, another band of pirates hijacked the Greek-owned cargo ship Ariana with its Ukrainian crew, a NATO spokesman said Saturday. Pirates now hold 17 ships with about 300 crew members.
