Somalia's prime minister said he could go after pirates if other nations gave him the resources he needed.

AN American ship’s captain was freed unharmed yesterday in a US Navy operation that killed three of the four Somali pirates who had been holding him for days in a lifeboat off the coast of Africa, a senior US intelligence official said.

FBI hostage negotiators joined US navy efforts yesterday to free an American cargo ship captain held captive on a lifeboat by Somali pirates.