NATO Task Force neutralises two pirate mother ships

16:37 GMT, January 9, 2012 Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean | Over the last 3 days in two separate operations Units of NATO’S Counter Piracy Task Force 508 successfully identified and neutralised two ocean going dhows that had been pirated and were subsequently being used as mother ships from which Somali pirates were intending to launch attacks on merchant shipping in the sea lanes off Somalia and the southern Arabian coasts. In the first incident on Friday 6th January the USS CARNEY

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