For two years, beginning in 2011, the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) had been building a case against a group of Somali pirates operating in the western Indian Ocean. Just off the coast of Somalia, the group held two vessels: the Albedo, a 520-foot container ship they took captive in November 2010, and the Naham 3, a 160-foot fishing ship they commandeered in March 2012. Demanding millions in ransom, they held dozens of the ships' crew members hostage, starving, torturing, and in some cases killing them.
展开▼
