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Somali Piracy Likely to Spread to Yemen: Ex-White House Official Robert Weiner and Somalia Leader's Speechwriter Yusuf Hassan Call for International Piracy Conference in Somalia

Published in Bioterrorism Week, March 1st, 2010

The piracy off Somalia's shore is "likely to spread to volatile Yemen," a former White House official and a Somali-American journalist assert. They call for a new international conference to find a solution in an op-ed published in the Detroit Free-Press.

The co-authors -- Yusuf M. Hassan, former speechwriter for the leader of Puntland state (where most of the pirates are from) in northern Somalia, and Robert Weiner, former White House Drug Policy Office spokesman -- connect the Somali conflict to terror-haven Yemen.

"The failed Detroit-bound airline bomber was trained in Yemen, across from Somalia over the Gulf of Aden," say Hassan and Weiner. They...

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Source: Bioterrorism Week (2010-03-01)

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