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South Korea Sends Warship After Hijacked Oil Tanker

   VOA News 05 April 2010
   In  this photo taken on 4 May 2009 and released by South Korea's Joint
   Chiefs  of Staff, South Korean snipers on a helicopter aim at a pirate
   ship about 37 kilometers south of Aden port in Yemen

Photo: AP

   In  this photo taken on 4 May 2009 and released by South Korea's Joint
   Chiefs  of Staff, South Korean snipers on a helicopter aim at a pirate
   ship about 37 kilometers south of Aden port in Yemen

   South  Korea has sent a warship to intercept an oil tanker it believes
   was hijacked by Somali pirates.
   South  Korea's  foreign  ministry says the supertanker Samho Dream was
   apparently seized in the Indian Ocean on Sunday with 24 crewmembers on
   board.
   There  has  been  no  confirmation the ship was hijacked, but ministry
   officials  say  they  reached that conclusion based on the ship's last
   communications.
   The  tanker  was  headed to the United States carrying oil worth up to