In this photograph released by India government Press Information Bureau in New Delhi, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008, the Indian Navy apprehends pirates in the Gulf of Aden on Dec. 13, 2008. The Indian navy said it arrested 23 pirates who threatened a merchant vessel in the Gulf of Aden on Saturday, the latest in a series of recent clashes with Somali pirates. (AP Photo/Press Information Bureau)From Yahoo News/AP:
NEW DELHI — The Indian navy captured 23 pirates who threatened a merchant vessel in the lawless waters of the Gulf of Aden and a German naval helicopter thwarted another attack Saturday on a freighter being chased by speedboats off Yemen.
The successes came days before Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was to ask the United Nations to authorize "all necessary measures" against increasingly bold Somalian pirates operating in one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.
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