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Michael Durant is rushed to a waiting helicopter shortly after being freed from captivity in Mogadishu, Somalia, in October, 1993.

FBI / Handout / REUTERS

Omar Shafik Hammami, a 28-year-old American from Alabama who traveled to Somalia and became a prominent spokesman for its al Shabaab rebels, is pictured in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters November 14, 2012. Hammami has been added to the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list.

Dominic Nahr—Magnum for TIME

Somalia, Mogadishu, 2012. An African Union soldier stands on the top floor of the destoryed Al-Uruba hotel which was one of the main bases of Al-Shabaab and was taken by the AU. It is now almost empty as most troops have been positioned out of Mogadishu.

Sergent Dupont Sebastien / ECPAD / Reuters

The crew of the French luxury yacht Ponant were held hostage by pirates off Somalia's coast. The French navy frigate "Le Commandant Bouan" is seen in the background.

Mohamed Sheikh Nor / AP

Somalia's newly formed naval forces march during a ceremony to mark the end of their training in Mogadishu.

JASON R. ZALASKY / AP

In this image released by U.S. Navy, the crew of the Ukrainian MV Faina stand on the deck following a U.S. Navy request to check on their health and welfare, off Somalia's coast Sunday Oct. 5, 2008. The ship is carrying 33 battle tanks, military weapons and 21 Ukrainian and Latvian and Russian hostages

The Islamist Shabab militia of Somalia at their training camp outside Mogadishu

Mohamed Dahir / AFP / Getty Images

Somali pirates prepare a skiff in Hobyo in northeastern Somalia

AFP/GETTY

BATTLE READY: Ethiopian troops in Somalia earlier this year

SVEN TORFINN FOR TIME

FAILED STATE: Somalia's armed gangs offer a haven to terrorists

REUTERS / FBI / Handout

Omar Shafik Hammami, a 28-year-old American from Alabama who traveled to Somalia and became a prominent spokesman for its al Shabaab rebels, is pictured in this undated handout photo.

Farah Abdi Warsameh / AP

Somali government forces walk outside the Muna Hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, Tuesday Aug, 24, 2010.

Feisal Omar / Reuters

Released British hostages Rachel and Paul Chandler at the presidential palace in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu

MOHAMED DAHIR / AFP / Getty Images

An armed pirate looks at a cargo ship anchored offshore in northeastern Somalia

Omar Faruk / Reuters

Civilians carry the body of a man killed after attacks in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu

(R) AFP / Getty ; (L) Antony Njuguna / Reuters

(L) Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden; (R) Somalia President Sheikh Shariff Ahmed

Mayank Bubna

The "helicopter woman," a popular figure in Somalia, is still awaiting compensation from the U.S. government for damage caused by the Black Hawk helicopter that fell on her house, killing two of her children, during the 1993 battle of Mogadishu.

SHABELLE MEDIA / REUTERS

Government soldiers stand inside the former Supreme Court compound in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, December 29, 2006.

SHABELLE MEDIA / REUTERS

Government soldiers stand inside the former Supreme Court compound in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, December 29, 2006.

DAVID & PETER TURNLEY/CORBIS

A U.S. soldier patrols a contested area in war-torn Somalia, 1992

AFP / GETTY

Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, the leader of the Islamic courts in Somalia, gestures while observing the training of militias.

MOHAMED DAHIR / AFP / Getty

A militant opposed to the government mans a position near the presidential palace in Mogadishu, Somalia

Farah Abdi Warsameh / AP

Armed fighters from the al-Shabab group travel on the back of pickup trucks outside Mogadishu in Somalia

MICHAEL RICHARDS / AFP / Getty Images

Michael Adebolajo, center, among the nine suspected members of the Al-Shabaab Movement arrested by Kenyan police on November 22 on claims of being Al-Shabaab recruits on their way to Somalia at the weekend, Nov. 23, 2010.

STUART PRICE / AFP/ Getty Images

This handout photograph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team on October 2, 2012 shows Somali youths pulling donkey-drawn water carts past sacks of charcoal by the roadside as a convoy of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) soldiers of the Kenyan Contingent makes its way through the city of Kismayo.

European Union Naval Force Somalia - Operation Atalanta / AP

Chinese cargo ship, the De Xin Hai, hijacked by Somali pirates, off the east coast of Somalia

Farah Abdi Warsameh / AP

A Somali woman is taken to a hospital after she was wounded during shelling between the Islamic insurgents and Somalia government soldiers backed by the AU forces

Farah Abdi Warsameh / AP

Ethiopian soldiers on a truck following a farewell ceremony which took place in the presidential palace, Mogadishu, Somalia, Tuesday

AFP / Getty

A crowd of Somalis beat the body of an Ethiopian soldier as it is dragged in the streets of Somalia’s capital on November 8, 2007.

AFP / Getty

A crowd of Somalis beat the body of an Ethiopian soldier as it is dragged in the streets of Somalia's capital.

AP / GUY CALAF, Pool

"WAITING:" A government soldier rests holding prayer beads in his left hand in Baidoa, Somalia.

Intelcenter / AP

This video image shows a man whom analysts believe is Aden Hashi Ayro, the alleged head of al-Qaeda in Somalia, killed in a U.S. military airstrike.

Sven Torfinn / Panos

Wreckage and unexploded munitions litter the ground where American forces bombed a convoy of fleeing Union of Islamic Courts fighters in southern Somalia

Marco Di Lauro / Getty

A Somali woman receives care at Bula Elay health center, which provides treatment to malnourished children in Bosaso (Bari region, Puntland state), Somalia

Mohamed Sheikh Nor / AP

Somali president Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, second left, sits with Somali prime minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke, right, during a news conference in Mogadishu's presidential palace, Somalia,Tuesday,Sept. 21,2010.

Tony Karumba / AFP / Getty Images

Kenyan authorities escort a suspected pirate from the French frigate "Nivose," part of the European Union's anti-piracy naval mission off the coast of Somalia

ECPAD-French Defense Ministry / AP

Suspected pirates, at left, are seen after they were intercepted by marine commandos of the French Navy in the Gulf of Aden, off the coast of Somalia.

AP/ Farah Abdi Warsameh

Mmasked Somali pirate Abdi Ali stands near a Taiwanese fishing vessel that washed up on shore after the pirates were paid a ransom and released the crew, in the once-bustling pirate den of Hobyo, Somalia.

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