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Article: Spain refuses to release pirates for sake of 33 sailors being held.(Front)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- November 7, 2009
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MADRID | Spain said Friday it would not free two captured pirates as demanded by fellow brigands who are holding a Spanish trawler and 33 crew members off the coast of Somalia.
Three crewmen that had been removed from the vessel and taken to the Somali mainland by hijackers to add pressure on Spain to repatriate the arrested pirates were returned to the ship late Friday, Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said.
"Somali authorities have offered all their support to the Spanish government," Moratinos said.
The trawler's captain told Spanish media Thursday that the pirates on board had threatened to start killing the hostages.
Deputy ...