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Aegis targets pirates in seas off Somali coast

By Sylvia Pfeifer, Defence Industries Correspondent

Published: April 21 2009 03:00 | Last updated: April 21 2009 03:00

Tim Spicer, the founder and chief executive of Aegis Defence Services, the private security company whose main market is in Iraq, is preparing to do battle on the high seas by tackling piracy off the coast of Somalia.

The company is in talks with several states in the region, including the Yemeni and Djibouti governments, about setting up a command and control centre that would monitor the increasing threat of piracy and act as an information exchange centre for vessels in the area.

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