Repeating what he’d previously told investigators, Gonzaga testified that the apparent pirates had ordered him to sail to Somalia—although not, curiously, toward any specific point in that country, which has more than three thousand kilometers of coastline. With that statement on the record, Gaisman sprang his trap. The ship’s navigational logs, he reminded the court, showed that Gonzaga had in fact steered it southwest, toward Djibouti—a placid East African state, fortified with US and French military installations, where it would be distinctly unwise to turn up with a hijacked oil tanker. As
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