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 Natiolan Post - In the darkness of the Indian Ocean, a bulky French refuelling vessel looked like easy pickings for two boatloads of Somali pirates as they drew alongside early yesterday.
The brigands had started their usual pre-boarding drill, letting loose with Kalashnikov assault rifles, before they noticed the 40mm cannon and missiles on the deck above them. The fat merchant ship was, in fact, La Somme, the 18,000-tonne flagship of the French naval operation that has been launched against the pirates.