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Guns, drugs and terror: Somali pirates morph into poly-criminals
Marines from NATO's Turkish frigate Gediz arrest suspected pirates on their skiff in the Gulf of Aden July 31, 2009.
By Bruno Schiemsky
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Posted Sunday, January 10 2010 at 12:54
Posted Sunday, January 10 2010 at 12:54
This is true not only because of the impact it has on international trade, but more so, because of the developing relationship between the pirates and the Somali insurgent group, Al-Shabaab, whose operations against the Somali Transitional Federal Government are financed by ransom money.
Bruno Schiemsky is an independent security consultant who served as the Chairman of the Somalia Monitoring Group between 2004 and 2008.
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