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[h1]Pirates take 'super tanker' towards Somalia[/h1]Pirates who hijacked a crude oil tanker off the coast of Kenya are approaching a Somali port, the U.S. Navy said Monday. [!--startclickprintexclude--] [!-- PURGE: /2008/WORLD/africa/11/17/kenya.tanker.pirates/art.sirius.star2.ap.jpg --][!-- KEEP --][div class="cnnStoryPhotoBox"][div id="cnnImgChngr" class="cnnImgChngr"][!----][!--===========IMAGE============--][img]vny!://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/WORLD/africa/11/17/kenya.tanker.pirates/art.sirius.star2.ap.jpg" alt="An undated photo of the Sirius Star in South Korean waters." border="0" width="292" height="219"][!--===========/IMAGE===========--][div class="cnnStoryPhotoCaptionBox"][div class="cnn3pxTB9pxLRPad"][!--===========CAPTION==========--]An undated photo of the Sirius Star in South Korean waters.[!--===========/CAPTION=========--][/p][/div][/div][div class="cnnWireBoxFooter"][img]vny!://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/2.0/mosaic/base_skins/baseplate/corner_wire_BL.gif" alt="" width="4" height="4"] [/div][/div][/div][!-- /PURGE: /2008/WORLD/africa/11/17/kenya.tanker.pirates/art.sirius.star2.ap.jpg --] [!--endclickprintexclude--] The Sirius Star -- a crude "super tanker" flagged in Liberia and owned by the Saudi Arabian-based Saudi Aramco company -- was attacked on Saturday more than 450 nautical miles southeast of Mombasa, Kenya.[/p] The crew of 25, including British, Croatian, Polish, Filippino and Saudi nationals, are reported to be safe[/p] U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet Cmdr. Jane Campbell said the super tanker weighs more than 300,000 metric tons and "is more than three times the size of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier."[/p] Oil industry insiders say a tanker of this size can carry up to 2 million barrels of oil, and the ship's operator, Dubai-based Vela International Marine Ltd, says it is fully laden.[/p][a href="vny!://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/11/17/kenya.tanker.pirates/index.html"]vny!://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/11/17/kenya.tanker.pirates/index.html[/a]
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