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April 13th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Sources in the semi-autonomous Somali region of Puntland, where the ship was held, said on Thursday that the pirates freed the ship, MV Leila, owned by the United Arab Emirates after receiving an unverified amount of ransom.
Pirates hijacked the vessel in February, some 25 nautical miles east of Salalah in Oman, with its cargo of goods and cars while en route to the Somaliland region.
The ship is reportedly on its way to Somaliland’s Berbera port now.
Rampant piracy off the Indian Ocean coast of Somalia has turned the waters into some of the most dangerous of the kind in the world.
The Gulf of Aden, which links the Indian Ocean with the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean Sea, is the quickest route for more than 20,000 vessels traveling annually between Asia, Europe and the Americas.
However, attacks by heavily armed Somali pirates sailing on speedboats in the region have prompted some of the world’s largest shipping firms to switch routes from the Suez Canal and reroute cargo vessels around southern Africa, which leads to more shipping costs.
Somalia has been without a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew former junta ruler Mohamed Siad Barre.
Strategically located in the Horn of Africa, Somalia remains one of the countries generating the highest number of refugees and internally displaced people in the world.
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