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COMMENTS: All Quiet on the Aden Front
CBS' London-based Sheila MacVicar filed her second Exclusive report from the Gulf of Aden on the threat from Somali pirates. As she was last week, MacVicar is on board the Canadian warship Winnipeg as it patrols the sea lanes along with representatives from the navies of China, Iran, Italy, Japan, France and the United States. Unfortunately for MacVicar's newsgathering--fortunately for merchant seamen--the naval patrols turn out to be effective: "As the number of warships has grown the number of attacks has dropped and in the last three weeks there has not been one successful hijacking."
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