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Somali Pirates Scare The Crap Out Of Arabs
by James Dunnigan
December 24, 2008

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Although the Somali pirates are Moslems, and threaten the Moslem nations in the region, none of those Moslem nations is willing to carry out the only complete solution to the problem. That is, landing troops and taking control of the coastal towns and villages the pirates use as bases.

Egypt, which receives nearly $6 billion a year in transit fees from users of the Suez Canal, sees that revenue threatened. If the pirates decide to move into the Red Sea, they would do great damage to the economies of Sudan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. But none of these countries is eager to take on the Somali pirates. Everyone is calling for "the world" (non-Moslem nations) to contribute ships and soldiers to deal with the problem.

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