Senior U.S. officials say that two months into a broad international anti-piracy campaign off the Somalia coast, the number of attacks against cargo ships is down sharply.
They also told Congress Thursday that there are no plans as yet to pursue pirates inside the largely ungoverned east African nation, as endorsed by a U.N. Security Council resolution in December.
Vice Adm. Bill Gortney, commander of the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet, told the House Armed Services Committee that the Pentagon is looking at the issue of internal strikes, and acknowledged that, "ultimately, the solution to the problem of piracy is ashore - in Somalia."
Since last September, the number of attacks has fallen from a dozen or more a month to just seven in February.
Source: AP
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