US Navy captain Heidi Agle had been directing a training exercise against piracy with maritime agencies of Ghana when the hijacking if a real-life lessonIt was supposed to be a US-led naval training maneuver off the coast of west Africa when real-life drama intervened,with pirates taking over an oil tanker and turning the exercise into a rescue mission.
Navies from the United States, Ghana, or Togo and Nigeria tracked the hijacked tanker through waters off five countries before Nigerian naval forces stormed aboard on 20 February amid a shootout that killed one of the pirates.
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Source: theguardian.com