Eleven go on trial for attacks on US Navy
THE SECOND trial of pirates in recent US history is under way after federal grand juries in Virginia returned two separate indictments against 11 men from Somalia, charging them with piracy and related offences for attacking two US Navy ships.
The indictments came a month after Kenya stopped accepting piracy suspects to be processed through its legal system.
However, with both US trials to date involving US-flagged ships, experts downplayed the prospect that the Virginia indictments signal an escalation of...
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