What is Maersk Alabama hijacking?
[[File:Lifeboat of the Maersk Alabama, after capture.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The lifeboat, in which Captain Phillips was held hostage, is taken to the USS ''Boxer''.]] The '''''Maersk Alabama'' hijacking''' it was a hijacking of the ''Maersk Alabama'' sea ship in 2009. It was hijacked by four [[pirates]] in the [[Indian Ocean]]. It was {{convert|240|nmi|km mi|lk=in}} southeast of [[Eyl]], [[Somalia]]. The four pirates soon took its captain, [[Richard Phillips]], as hostage on the ''Maersk Alabama's'' lifeboat. The hijacking ended after a rescue effort by the [[U.S. Navy]] on 12 April 2009, by shooting three of the four pirates. The leader of the attack was in the USS ''Bainbridge'' looking for a ransom agreement. He was arrested on site.<ref>{{cite news |date= 9 April 2009 |last= Sanders |first= Edmund |author2= Barnes, Julian E. |url= http://articles.latimes.com/2009/apr/09/world/fg-somali-pirates9 |title= Somalia pirates hold U.S. captain |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |accessdate= 12 April 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/04/08/2009-04-08_somali_pirates_seize_usflagged_cargo_ship_with_21_american_sailors_says_diplomat.html |title= Americans take back cargo ship Maersk Alabama after it was hijacked by Somali pirates |work= New York Daily News |date= 8 April 2009 |accessdate= 8 April 2009 |first= Larry |last= McShane |archive-date= 11 April 2009 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090411025508/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/04/08/2009-04-08_somali_pirates_seize_usflagged_cargo_ship_with_21_american_sailors_says_diplomat.html |url-status= dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last= Davis |first= William |title= The pirates Laffite |publisher= Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |location= |page= 457 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=q6HmmXy-wkUC&dq=pirates+american+ship&pg=PA457 |isbn= 978-0-15-100403-4 |date= 2 May 2005 |access-date= 31 August 2017 |archive-date= 27 January 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160127180718/https://books.google.