Shooting Back at Pirates Works

A good article I found in the Daily Star ePaper;

Thomas Countryman, principal deputy assistant at the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, “The firing of warning shots is often enough to cause pirates to break off the pursuit,” Countryman told journalists. 
The official said there had “not been a case of successful piracy” against an armed American-flagged ship. 
You can read the entire article at:   

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=112965