Ahmed Osoble, 27, sits near a group of Somali militiamen, who are aligned with pirates, as they take a break from an overnight trip into the central town of Galkayo on Aug. 21, 2010.
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The silhouettes of armed men, some pirates and some homegrown security forces, appear on the horizon in the early morning in the semi-desertic plains near the central Somalia town of Galkayo on Aug. 18, 2010. Homegrown security forces usually come from same clans and families as the pirates themselves and both group tolerate each others presence.
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An armed fighter allied to the Somalia's Hobyo pirates holds his high caliber weapon near the central Somali town of Galkayo on Aug. 18, 2010. Hobyo pirates have collected millions of dollars in ransoms over the past two years. They even have currency checking and counting machines for the bags of air-dropped cash they receive.
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Galmadug armed forces (foreground), armed militiamen (middle) and pirates (background) mill around on the coast in the central Somali town of Hobyo on Aug. 20, 2010. The fledging local Galmadug administration in central Somalia says it lacks the resources to confront the well organized and well equipped pirate gangs. Both armed groups, whose members may belong to the same clans and even same extended families, sometimes work together and act as security forces for the region.
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Somali elders from the town of Hobyo come together to discuss some of the issues affecting this central Somali coastal town on Aug. 18, 2010. The elders complained about the lack of foreign-funded development that would provide the residents of the town with an alternative to piracy as a form of making a living. Hobyo has no schools, no clinics and bad drinking water sources.
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Somali elder from the town of Hobyo attends a discussion on some of the issues, including piracy, affecting this central Somali coastal town on Aug. 18, 2010.
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Two French soldiers inspect the boat that held three pirates who where captured earlier and taken to the French warship "Nivose," in the North Seychelles area of Indian Ocean, on Apr. 30, 2009, as part of the EU's anti-piracy naval mission.
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Members of a team from the guided-missile cruiser USS Anzio (CG 68) and US Coast Guard Maritime Safety and Security Team 91104 secure the crewmembers of suspected pirate vessel on Oct. 15, 2009.
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A Pakistani girl holds a picture featuring his father who is held by Somali pirates during a demonstration in Karachi on Mar. 1, 2011 to demand the Pakistani government to adopt effective measures. Piracy has surged in recent years off Somalia, which sits alongside one of the world's most important shipping routes, with seafaring gangs venturing further and further out to sea to capture ships.
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Suspected Somali pirates sit with their faces covered during a media interaction on board an Indian Coast guard ship off the coast of Mumbai on Feb. 10, 2011.
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Suspected Somali pirates wait for the start of their trial on June 24, 2010, at the Shimo la Tewa maximum prison in the Kenyan coastal town of Mombasa.
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Inmates are seen through bars at Berbera Prison in Somalia's semi-independent Republic of Somaliland on Mar. 30, 2011. As piracy has flourished and turned increasingly violent, an unprecedented 17 countries are prosecuting pirates yet Somali jails have borne most of the burden.
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