Briton kidnapped in Somalia freed in gunbattle

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• Security forces surround British oil worker's captors in northern Somalia, free him
  
• Briton worked for Africa Oil Corp. near Bossaso, a hotbed of abductions and piracy
  
• Pirates off coast holding ships for ransom, food aid ships in jeopardy
  
• U.S. warships preventing pirates from offloading heavy weapons from captured ship
  
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