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Blockade Somalia?

By The Daily Dish
Nov 25 2008, 10:22 AM ET

That's what the shipping companies want:

The pirate-infested waters off of east Africa are huge -- more than 1.1 million square miles. So rather than trying to patrol that whole, enormous area, tanker owners' association president Peter Swift suggests "putting a blockade around Somalia and introducing the idea of intercepting vessels leaving Somalia rather than to try to protect the whole of the Gulf of Aden."



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