Pirates attacked a U.S.-flagged cargo ship off the coast of Somalia with rockets and automatic weapons on April 14, 2009 but failed to board the craft, the ship’s owner and the U.S. military said. Liberty Maritime said the pirates fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons at the vessel, which was carrying U.S. food aid for African nations to Mombasa, Kenya, from Houston, it said.
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