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索马里海盗改行 从事其他非法活动 Piracy off the coast of Somalia, one of the worlds crucial shipping lanes, has plunged this year because of aggressive military and intelligence steps that have made it too costly for seafaring bandits to operate, regional diplomats and naval officials said. 索马里地区的外交人士和海军官员说，索马里附近海域的海盗活动今年大幅减少，原因是力度极大的军事和情报举措使得海盗团伙运营起来费用太高。索马里海域是世界上的重要航道之一。 The success, however, has had an unintended consequence: The Somali crime lords behind the pirate networks have shifted to other illicit trade, sometimes in partnership with al Qaeda-linked militant groups like al-Shabaab, aiding terrorism in the Horn of Africa, diplomats and intelligence officials said. 不过，外交人士和情报官员说，打击海盗行动的成功产生了一个意想不到的后果：海盗网络背后的索马里黑帮头目转向了其他非法活动，有时与青年党(al-Shabaab)等跟基地组织(al Qaeda)有关系的军事组织合作，向非洲之角的恐怖活动提供援助。 None of these operations exists in a vacuum,?said a regional intelligence official who traces terrorism financing across Gulf states. Al Qaeda and smugglers trade off the same connections, the same sea routes and the same protection rackets.?一位跟踪海湾国家恐怖活动资金来源的地区情报官员说，这些活动都不是存在于真空中的。基地组织和走私者使用的是同样的关系网，同样的航道，向同样的组织交保护费。 In 2011, there were 237 piracy-related events in the waters off Somalia, according to the International Maritime Bureau, which monitors piracy and the effect on commercial shipping. In 2012, the figure dropped to 75. This year, as of Oct. 14 there were 10 incidents--only two of them hijackings. 据国际海事局(International Maritime Bureau)说，2011年，索马里附近海域发生237起与海盗有关的事件。该组织监控海盗活动及其给商业航运活动带来的影响。2012年这类事件减少至75起。今年截至10月14日，发生了10起事件，其中只有两起是劫船事件。 The United Nations reports similar figures. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said last week there had been 17 attacks in the first nine months of 2013 in the Arabian Sea, compared with 99 in the same period last year. 联合国(United Nations)发布了类似的数据。联合国秘书长潘基文(Ban Ki-moon)上周说，2013年前九个月阿拉伯海发生了17起袭击事件，相比之下，上年同期发生了99起。 Most of the piracy in the Gulf of Aden and the adjacent Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean has been controlled by Somali organized crime l