Twenty joyful but exhausted sailors stepped off a plane and into the arms of their loved ones - a happy ending to an emotionally searing four-month hijack drama off the coast of Somalia. The seizure of the MV Faina raised fears that its cargo of 33 T-72 tanks and other weapons could fall into the hands of pirates or al-Qaida-linked terrorists in the failed African state of Somalia.
Somalia has not had an effective government for almost two decades.
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A man who said he was the ship's captain reported that one crew member had died.
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