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The pirates of Somalia are carrying out more and more high-seas hijackings of ships heading for the Gulf of Aden. That’s despite an armada of warships deployed by the United States and its allies to patrol the region. Marco Werman talks with Jeffrey Gettleman of the New York Times about the piracy problem.