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Wednesday night two Somali pirate skiffs tried to roll up on an 18,000 ton ship cruising 250 miles off the Somali coast that they thought was a freighter.
After beginning their attack run by firing Kalashnikov rifles at the 525 foot ship in question, they noticed too late that the ship they were attempting to bumrush was a French naval vessel, the La Somme.
The La Somme just happens to be the French naval command vessel for the multinational naval task force working to suppress the pirate attacks.
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Score one for the multi-national anti-piracy task force this time.
But they still have a difficult job in trying to patrol two million square miles of ocean with just two dozen ships and a single patrol aircraft.
Advantage pirates. But not if they can't tell the difference between cargo ships and armed naval vessels.
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