U.S. asks to hunt pirates
The United States is seeking international authorization to hunt Somali pirates on land with the cooperation of Somalia’s weak U.N.-backed government.
A U.S. draft resolution circulating among U.N. Security Council members proposes that all nations and regional groups cooperating with Somalia’s government in the fight against piracy and armed robbery also “may take all necessary measures ashore in Somalia,” including its airspace.
Presumably that could involve the U.S. military, which withdrew from Somalia after the killing of 18 U.S. troops there in 1993.
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