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Thu 11 Nov 2008Piracy boom draws hundreds of young where life is cheap and hope is rare
Even school-age Somalis are leaving education to become criminals, write Xan Riceand Abdiqani Hassanin Bosasso, northern Somalia
DHOWS REST on a white sand beach in front of a few dozen ramshackle homes. A creek cuts inland, traced by a dirt road that runs to a craggy fishing settlement two miles away.
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