US cargo ship evades Somali pirate attack

Defiant Somali pirates fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons at another U.S. cargo ship on Tuesday but failed to hijack it, officials said, just days after Navy SEALs rescued an American hostage after an earlier unsuccessful hijacking.

The brazen midday attack on the Liberty Sun in international waters off the African coast is further evidence that Somali pirates were back to business as usual. Pirates have seized four other ships with 60 hostages since sharpshooters killed three gunmen holding American freighter captain Richard Phillips. "No one can deter us," one bandit boasted.

US cargo ship evades Somali pirate attack

"No one can deter us," no more famous last words have ever been spoken.

A very similar utterance was made by another group of pirates who had been stealing from the world and getting away with it until they tried to steal from a nation that had just formed a few years prior.

Haven't you ever wondered where the line in the USMC hymn, '... from the shores of Tripoli ...' came from?

The Barbary pirates based in Tripoli, Tunisia found out they very well could be deterred and 'completely' deterred at that.

The pirates in Somalia were getting away with stealing from the world until they tried stealing from that same nation ...