United States sent more ships to the site of the attack on "Maersk Alabama."

SyuzhetyPiratstvo off Somali09.04.2009Somaliyskie pirates have not been able to seize two Greek sudnaSShA send additional warships to the area where the American container ship "Maersk Alabama" was attacked by Somali pirates, AFP reports .

The group of ships, said on Thursday evening, the representative of the Ministry of Defense United States, within 48 hours will join the destroyer "Beynbridzh, located off the coast of Somalia. How many ships sent to the area where pirates attacked the "Maersk Alabama, he did not specify. In turn, agency Bloomberg, also refers to the representatives of the Pentagon, said that "Beynbridzhu" join frigate Haliberton "(USS Halyburton).

Somali pirates attacked the container ship "Maersk Alabama" 8 April 2009. The crew managed to prevent the seizure of the vessel, but the captain "Maersk Alabama" - a U.S. citizen, Richard Phillips (Richard Phillips) - has been in captivity at the pirates. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday said that "the release of the captain - our main concern."

The pirates, seized the captain "Maersk Alabama are trying to get to the coast of Somalia on a motor boat. On Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton reported that on the boat almost finished fuel. Other sources, including the Pentagon, yet this information is not confirmed.

To help the boat in which there are four pirate captain and container, according to Bloomberg, went the other pirates. Since the agency on the night of April 10, contacted by telephone a Dawood (Da'ud), stating that it belongs to a group of pirates attacked "Maersk Alabama." According to him, with the pirates, restraint of captain, supported us, and they have come to meet other pirate ships.

U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, commenting on the situation on Thursday with an attack on the "Maersk Alabama, said that the fight against piracy, with long history, should be conducted" means XXI-st century. "
"We are looking for an opportunity to improve the efficiency of operations to combat pirates, carried out by us, including by bringing to it in other countries," - Clinton said at a briefing at the State Department. United States, she said, has already successfully coordinate teams of warships sent to the coast of Somalia other countries, and are ready to continue to "lead the international effort to combat piracy."
In doing so, U.S. Secretary of State noted that one of the main factors triggering the growth of attacks by pirates, is political instability in Somalia.