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Somali Women Flocking To Port In Hope of Marrying Pirates 5

The large sums of ransom money being paid out to pirates has led some Somali women to venture to the port town of Bosaso in hopes of finding a treasure map to their heart. Kaj Larsen, a former US Navy SEAL says, "One of the interesting demographic things that's happening right now is that single Somali women are flocking to the port town Bosaso where these pirates come out of in the hopes of marrying a pirate. So you can see that it really is — the root conditions of poverty, lawlessness and civil war on the ground in Somalia are really what are breeding this problem."

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Somali Women Flocking To Port In Hope of Marrying Pirates

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  • by gavron ( 1300111 )
    Dear Pirates, it costs us millions of dollars to have all these warships just because you don't understand the limits of your sandbox. We're here to provide that education.

    Do lets bring Captain Richards to us.

    If you don't, tomorrow we will use our "little planes" (UAVs) to remove the nicest house on the nicest hilltop. After that we'll wait another day for Captain Richards. Then we'll remove the nicest two houses on the nicest two hilltops. The day after four, and so on.

    If by Tuesday we haven't re

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