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"Even as gunboats from across the globe move into their waters, the desperate, well-armed, and increasingly bold bandits of Somalia keep swarming the decks of the world\u00E2\u00BF\u00BFs largest ships. They take what they want, they don\u00E2\u00BF\u00BFt leave until the (higher and higher) ransoms are paid, and they won\u00E2\u00BF\u00BFt stop until a modern-day war against piracy breaks out\n\t\t\t                          \nby jeffrey gettleman\n\nour little plane buzzed over the crumbling dunes, and the midday sun made the wasteland beneath us look impossibly bright and lifeless. We crossed over a ridge of mountains that gave way to a long empty beach and then a vast, beautiful expanse of teal blue. The pilot cut our speed, and the plane began its descent into Boosaaso, a booming pirate city and a portal into the chaotic underworld of Somalia.\nThe airport in Boosaaso is like most in this country, a strip of gravel with an outhouse and a corrugated-iron shack where a few veiled women stirred a murky pot of tea. Outside, in the thin lattice of shade provided by thorn trees, lurked the mooryaan, the half-starved young men with glassy eyes and loaded Kalashnikovs who haunt every nook and cranny of this country. Some of them wore military fatigues that drooped off their shoulders, making them look like boys in men\u2019s clothing, which they were. They watched as the plane rolled to a halt and the pilot opened the cabin door.\nFriends who work for the United Nations in Kenya had warned me to stay away from Boosaaso. I had about a 100 percent chance of being stuffed into the back of a Toyota or shot in the head, they said, unless I was extremely well guarded, around the clock, in which case my chances were only marginally better. In Boosaaso you have to go through the local \u201Cgovernment\u201D to hire security, which really means you\u2019re going to criminals to hire security to protect you from criminals. The guards you\u2019re assigned may keep you from being kidnapped, or they may kidnap you themselves. There\u2019s a lot of money on the line, in a very poor place, so it\u2019s impossible to know which way it..."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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