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"Transmission Losses:" West African pirates

Plugs and Cars

5 Nigerian pirates stormed a Panamanian-flagged Ukrainian tanker, the Westaf, anchored off Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, according to the Sovfracht Maritime Bulletin published in Kiev. The cost of this protection will, of course, be borne by American taxpayers. West Africa's burgeoning oil industry has a pirate problem.

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