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Hussein Haji Mahmood (L), Somali deputy council in Aden, talks to suspected Somali pirates at a court in Yemen's southern port city of Aden July 15, 2009. The defendants, who are part of a group of 22 suspected pirates captured by Indian and Russian navy ships in the Gulf of Aden in December 2008 and February 2009, were charged on Wednesday with committing acts of piracy and attempted piracy. (REUTERS / Khaled Abdullah )