U.S. Navy officials order seven suspected pirates to keep their hands in the air after they tried to hijack a commercial ship. The men were captured Feb. 11, 2009 by the USS Vella Gulf, a guided-missile cruiser that detects and deters piracy. The men were kept aboard the ship until they were transferred by helicopter to the U.S. naval ship Lewis and Clark.(Mass Communications Specialist 2nd Class Jason R. Zalasky/U.S. Navy)/ABC NewsUS Navy, Russians Seize 26 Pirates Off Somalia -- Yahoo News/AP
ABOARD THE USNS LEWIS AND CLARK – U.S. Navy and Russian warships arrested 26 suspected Somali pirates this week, while a maritime watchdog warned on Friday that pirates are stepping up attacks as weather improves in the waters off East Africa.
The latest arrests came Thursday, when an American helicopter from the USS Vella Gulf fired warning shots at gunmen in two skiffs that had opened fire and tried to board the Indian-flagged vessel Premdivya.
U.S. forces searched the skiff and found weapons including rocket-propelled grenades, then took nine suspected pirates aboard the American ship, the Bahrain-based 5th Fleet said.
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