Spain's prime minister did little on Tuesday to deny paying off the hijackers of a Spanish trawler and its 36 crew, held captive off the coast of Somalia, a $3.3 million ransom to free them. "The government did what it had to do," Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero told a news conference Tuesday in Madrid. "The important thing is that the sailors will be back with US.
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