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Warships block help for pirates holding US captain...

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Apr. 11, 2009
Warships block help for pirates holding US captain...(First headline, 1st story, link)Related stories:Obama Team Mulls Threat From Somali Extremists...
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Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler