Off Africa's Coast, Pirates 'Out of Control.'

They come out of the darkness in the waters off the coast of East Africa, zooming up in speedboats to the sides of massive cargo ships, armed with grappling hooks, AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades. [. . .]

It's a "stateless society," says Stephen Morrison, an Africa expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "Until you get some semblance of order and governance within Somalia, you're going to see these kinds of developments — piracy, the insertion of radical Islamist movements … and you're going to see humanitarian catastrophe."

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