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Officials in Aden said al Qaeda has been sending dozens of militants to the province and more attacks are expected on government forces.
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"The judge is wrong in the sense that the Facebook button actually says the word 'like, ' so there are actually words being used, " said Aden Fine, a senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, which has filed a brief supporting Carter's appeal.
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The government had proposed sending 30 troops to the Gulf of Aden, but opponents said the bill compromised Switzerland's long-held neutrality.
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Police and Army officers are spread from the Sinak Bridge all the way to Aden Square, one solider said.
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"Billions of dollars of goods move through the Gulf of Aden each year, " said Bill Matthews, executive vice president of Blackwater Worldwide, in a press release.
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"This new move by the European Union to put more ships into the Gulf of Aden could be quite positive, " he said.
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Al Qaeda has been attempting to infiltrate Aden from neighboring Abyan province since November, officials said.
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He said that piracy in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean was going to be a very "long-term problem".
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The main difference between the East and West African pirate activities is that almost all the incidents in Nigeria are conducted within its territorial waters, whereas most of the incidents along the East coast of Africa and the Gulf of Aden occur on the high seas, the report said.
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The Yemen government says it is cooperating with the U.S., and the CIA is said to be providing intelligence for some of Aden's anti-al Qaeda efforts.
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On Tuesday, the German cruise liner MS Columbus said it would fly its 246 passengers and most of its crew over the Gulf of Aden instead of through it to avoid any pirate attack.
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