Somali Leaders: Give Us The Tools, We'll Fight The Pirates

From The Danger Room:

As Secretary of Defense Robert Gates now sees it, fighting Somali pirates mean's fixing Somalia's problems on land. Speaking yesterday at the Army War College, Gates said the United States is actively looking for allies inside Somalia's weak and fractured government. And he suggested that Puntland -- which declared its autonomy in 1998 -- might be a good candidate for military assistance.

"The main problem," Gates said, "is the ungoverned space that is now Somalia. And one of the questions that I think we have to look at is, do we look at what we might be able to do with regional governments in Somalia; for example, the government in Puntland, which has more capacity than -- seems to me -- than perhaps the government in Mogadishu right now."

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