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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7450835" data-attributes="member: 92282">Pirates released a Bermudan-flagged cargo ship and its mainly Sri  Lankan crew on Tuesday after a ransom was paid, the EU naval force said  two months after the vessel was seized off the Oman coast.The  ransom drop was made on Saturday but the pirates remained on board the  ship and only left Tuesday morning, heading for the Somali coast, the EU  Navfor force said in a statement.The Talca had a crew of 20 Sri  Lankans, a Syrian and a Filipino. Navfor was monitoring the ship's  progress to port, the statement said.The ship was seized off the  Oman on March 23.The pirates struck after the cargo ship had  passed through an internationally recommended transit corridor which is  patrolled by warships and maritime patrol aircraft from Navfor, NATO,  Combined Maritime Forces and other navies.<a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h2bK30txHj6wWwCEuh_ycE_kx8SQ" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.google.com/hostednews/img/afp_logo.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></blockquote>

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