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“Touching Americans is the worst that pirates did”

Published: 13 April, 2009, 15:59


USS Bainbridge has been involved in a standoff with Somali pirates (AFP Photo / US Navy)

The history of the US Marines started with fighting African pirates, and now a permanent US military presence in Somalia is the only solution to the modern piracy problem, says RT’s military analyst Eugene Khrushchev.

 
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