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COMMENTS: Union Strong
ABC claimed an Exclusive for Jim Sciutto's interview in Mombasa Wednesday with the First and Second Mates of the Maersk Line's Alabama. Now all of the Norfolk-based crew, save Captain Richard Phillips, have arrived back in the United States by air. NBC's Tom Costello and Jeff Glor of CBS' Early Show were able to collect other soundbites and illustrate them with animated computer graphics. Helmsman ATM Reza told CBS' Glor that the pirates only managed to grapple their way on board at the fourth attempt. He stabbed one of them in the hand. John Cronan, the Third Engineer, offered NBC's Costello the simplest explanation for their survival: "We are American seamen. We are union members. We stuck together."
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