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Officials: Warship, others headed to pirate scene
"WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say an American warship and a half dozen others are headed to the scene where pirates captured a vessel with a U.S. crew off Somalia's coast.
One official says the destroyer USS Bainbridge is headed there. Another official says there are six or seven ships on the way.
A person aboard the Maersk Alabama, reached by The Associated Press by satellite phone, says crew members had retaken control of the ship. But pirates were holding the captain as a hostage in a lifeboat in waters nearby."..............