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Piracy off the Somali ...   Piracy off the Somali coast has been a threat to international shipping  since the beginning of Somalia's civil war in the early 1990s. Since  2005, many international organizations, including the International  Maritime Organization and the World Food Programme, have expressed  concern over the rise in acts of piracy. Piracy has contributed to an  increase in shipping costs and impeded the delivery of food aid  shipments. Ninety percent of the World Food Programme's shipments arrive  by sea, and ships have required a military escort. According to the  Kenyan foreign minister, Somali pirates have received over US$150  million during the 12 months prior to November 2008. Clashes have  been reported between Somalia's Islamist fighters (who are opposed to  the Transitional Federal Government) and the pirates. In August 2008,  Combined Task Force 150, a multinational coalition task force, took on  the role of fighting Somali piracy by establishing a Maritime Security  Patrol Area (MSPA) within the Gulf of Aden. The increasing threat posed  by piracy also caused significant concerns in India since most of its  shipping trade routes pass through the Gulf of Aden. The Indian Navy  responded to these concerns by deploying a warship in the region on  October 23, 2008. In September 2008, Russia announced that it too will  soon join international efforts to combat piracy. On October 7,  2008, the United Nations Security Council adopted resolution 1838  calling on nations with vessels in the area to apply military force to  repress the acts of piracy. At the 101st council of the International  Maritime Organization, India called for a United Nations peacekeeping  force under unified command to tackle piracy off Somalia. (There has  been a general and complete arms embargo against Somalia since 1992.) In  November 2008, Somali pirates began hijacking ships well outside the  Gulf of Aden, perhaps targeting ships headed for the port of Mombasa,  Kenya. There are discussions under way to begin an aggressive  covert operation against the pirates. The CIA has been publicly warning  of this potential threat for months. Per a recent article in the Harpers  Magazine, a CIA official stated, "We need to deal with this problem  from the beach side, in concert with the ocean side, but we don't have  an embassy in Somalia and limited, ineffective intelligence operations.  We need to work in Somalia and in Lebanon, where a lot of the ransom  money has changed hands. But our operations in Lebanon are a joke, and  we have no presence at all in Somalia." -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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