The Maersk Alabama hijacking began on 8 April 2009, when four pirates in the Somali Basin seized the Danish/U.S. cargo ship Maersk Alabama at a distance...
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MV Tygra (redirect from Maersk Alabama)
Hijacking, a 2012 Danish film about the Maersk Alabama hijacking Captain Phillips, a 2013 film starring Tom Hanks about the Maersk Alabama hijacking Piracy...
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merchant mariner and author who served as captain of the MV Maersk Alabama during its hijacking by Somali pirates in April 2009. Of Irish descent, Phillips...
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Abduwali Muse (category Hijackers)
convicted pirate. He is the sole survivor of four pirates who hijacked the MV Maersk Alabama in April 2009 and then held Captain Richard Phillips for ransom...
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Captain Phillips (film) (category Maersk)
action-thriller film directed by Paul Greengrass. Based on the 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking, the film tells the story of Captain Richard Phillips, an American...
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holding the hostage, Captain Richard Phillips, of the freighter ship Maersk Alabama. The pirates and their hostage were being towed in a lifeboat approximately...
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Frank Castellano (section Maersk Alabama hijacking)
commander of the guided missile destroyer USS Bainbridge during the hijacking of MV Maersk Alabama. Captain Castellano was listed as executive officer of USS Vella...
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List of operations conducted by SEAL Team Six (section Maersk Alabama hijacking and rescue, 12 April 2009)
locations in friendly nations such as Kenya, or from US Navy Ships. MV Maersk Alabama, a 508 foot long cargo ship carrying 17,000 tons of humanitarian aid...
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"lead paratrooper" in the rescue of Richard Phillips from the Maersk Alabama hijacking; these missions were the bases of the 2013 films Lone Survivor...
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operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Bissonnette was involved in the Maersk Alabama hijacking rescue operation in 2009 and Operation Neptune Spear in 2011, both...
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