Pirates Get Paid for Saudi Tanker

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Jan. 9: A parachute dropped by a small aircraft is observed as it drops over the MV Sirius Star during an apparent payment via a parachuted container to pirates holding the ship. Somali pirates released the oil-laden Saudi supertanker after receiving a $3 million ransom, a negotiator for the bandits said Friday.

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Jan. 9: A small aircraft is observed as it flies over the MV Sirius Star during an apparent payment via a parachuted container to pirates holding the ship. Somali pirates released the oil-laden Saudi supertanker after receiving a $3 million ransom, a negotiator for the bandits said Friday. The MV Sirius Star, a brand new tanker with a 25-member crew, was seized in the Indian Ocean Nov. 15 in a dramatic escalation of high seas crime.

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Jan. 9: A small aircraft is observed as it flies over the MV Sirius Star Friday, Jan 9, 2009, during an apparent payment via a parachuted container to pirates holding the ship. Somali pirates released the oil-laden Saudi supertanker after receiving a $3 million ransom, a negotiator for the bandits said Friday.

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Jan. 9: A parachute dropped by a small aircraft drops over the MV Sirius Star at anchor following an apparent payment via a parachuted container to pirates holding the ship.

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Jan. 9: The MV Sirius Star is observed at anchor following an apparent payment via a parachuted container to pirates holding the Sirius Star.

AP/U.S. Navy