told you about the breaking news involving pirates who fired on a navy ship prompting the navy to return fire and capture the pirates. today we re learning more about that attack and another one in the indian ocean. again, this is east of africa, north of madagascar. jim miklaszewski is live at the pentagon with the details. what s the latest. reporter: they are telling msnbc news we may be in the middle of what could be a major priority offensive. a pirate commander on shore in somalia had ordered all parrots to get out into their boats and hijack as many ships as they possibly could. overhead surveillance said apparently they were all gone. personal pirates are out there in that region, off the coast of africa, gulf of eden, laying in wait to hijack ships. here is the problem.
skiffs. there was intercepted communication that a pirate commander ordered all ships ashore and aggressively try to hijack any ship that they can find. overnight surveillance showed one night the shore was lined with pirate boats the next morning they were gone. there are concerns there could be a very sharp uptick in the kind of pirate operations we ve seen. in regard to the incidents over the past couple of days, the navy found itself in somewhat of a dilemma. earlier this week they captured 11 pirates, but within a day released all 11 presumably because there wasn t enough evidence against them, even though the navy sank this mother boat. we re being told that kenya, which has been accepting priorities to prosecute, said they can no longer take anymore. their jails are full. in a second incident when they fired on a navy ship, that s a legal dilemma, takes it one