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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East?

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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (11851)	1/25/2006 9:04:15 PM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (1) of 32591

well, I know this isnt the middle east, but I think this has some meaning: U.S. NAVY STRIKES SOMALI PIRATES January 25, 2006 The Middle East Newsline reports: “For the first time in years, the U.S. Navy launched an operation against pirates who operate off the coast of Somalia. U.S. officials said the navy has increased patrols along the coast of Somalia, an Arab League state, in an effort to end piracy. On Jan. 13, Somali pirates attacked Western ships that moved through the Red Sea. Over the weekend, the navy captured pirates off the coast of Somalia, which has not had a central government since 1990. The navy said the USS Winston S. Churchill fired warning shots and then boarded the suspected dhow, which contained light arms, about 80 kilometers from the coast. ‘After receiving a report of an attempted act of piracy, the guided missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill [DDG 81] and other U.S. naval forces in the area located the suspected vessel and shadowed it through the night and into the morning hours of Saturday,’ the U.S. Navy said in a statement from the Bahraini capital of Manama…”

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