Somali pirates, acting on behalf of Al-Qaeda, hijacked a US-owned cargo ship early Saturday morning.
The pirates murdered seven Indian and Malaysian hostages.. During a Saudi rescue mission, two Saudi military personnel and five pirates died. Originally, the general population understood the contents of the ship to be food and humanitarian aid. However, upon the Saudi search of the cargo ship, the Saudi military found large quantities of high technology weapons.
These are the same weapons that the Yemeni military uses. The US, along with other western nations, has been providing the Yemeni government with weapons.
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