Somalia

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS British seafarers Paul and Rachel Chandler talk with local leaders in Adado, Somalia, after being released Sunday by pirates. The couple later flew to Mogadishu en route to Kenya and then home.

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A boy hired to wash blood from an ambulance in Mogadishu, Somalia, won't be able to finish the job before its driver races off again to answer a call for help. (Associated Press)

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In this Sept. 9, 2010, photo released by the U.S. Navy, the amphibious transport dock ship USS Dubuque, left, is on station with the Turkish frigate TCG Gokceada, during a board and seizure operation by the U.S. Marine Corps 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Maritime Raid Force, after the motor vessel Magellan Star was attacked and boarded by pirates on Sept. 8, 2010, off the coast of Somalia. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Cryptologic Technician 2nd Class William Farmerie)

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Somali President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, second left, sits with Somali Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, right, during a press conference in Mogadishu's presidential palace, Somalia, on Tuesday, Sept. 21,2010. The prime minister resigned Tuesday to prevent what he called political turmoil amid an impasse with the country's president.(AP Photo/ Mohamed Sheikh Nor)

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Islamist al-Shabab fighters conduct a military exercise in northern Mogadishu, Somalia. With no functioning government since 1991, militants with guns have been filling the social-justice void in Somalia with violence. (Associated Press)

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Sheik Ali Mohamud Rage, a spokesman for the al-Shabab militia,Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010, in Mogadishu, Somalia, who said that members of the group's "special forces" had carried out the attack against those "aiding the infidels." Scores of people were killed during the attack. (AP Photo/Mohamed Olad Hassan)

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Somali government forces walk outside the Muna Hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, Tuesday Aug, 24, 2010. A suicide bomber and a gunman stormed the hotel in Somalia's capital on Tuesday, killing more than 30 people, including members of parliament, a military spokesman said. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

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A medical assistant at Madina Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia, tends to a child who was injured by a mortar shell during clashes between Somali insurgents and African Union troops on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

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A man carries his 5-month-old wounded son at Medina hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia, after he was injured in a mortar shell between Somali insurgents and African Union troops, in Mogadishu, Somalia, Monday, Aug 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)

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A wounded man is assisted into Mogadishu's Madina hospital after he was wounded by a mortar shell during fighting between Somali insurgents and African Union troops, in Mogadishu, Somalia, Monday, Aug 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

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African Union peacekeepers in Somalia patrol in a tank as they assists government forces during clashes with Islamist insurgents in southern Mogadishu, Somalia, on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

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A father carries his son into Medina hospital, Mogadishu, Somalia, Monday, Aug.16, 2010, after he was wounded by mortar shrapnel during clashes between Somali insurgents and African Union troops. (AP Photo/ Farah Abdi Warsameh)

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Demonstrators against the African Union peacekeeping force shout slogans during a protest this month in Mogadishu, Somalia, that was organized by al-Shabaab. The militant group battles African Union and government forces in the streets of the capital daily, in an effort to topple Somalia's weak, U.N.-backed administration. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Somali government coast guards patrol the coast of Mogadishu, Somalia to keep a watch for pirates who hijack ships off the coast. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** U.S. Rep. Donald Payne (left) has discussions with Somali Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid on Monday, April 13, 2009, in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)