Then again, France, India, South Korea, Russia, Spain, the U.S. and NATO have established a presence in the region. By UN Security Council resolution 1816 passed in June, states co-operating with Somalia's transitional government are permitted, through December, to enter its territorial waters and use "all necessary means" to "repress acts of piracy and armed robbery at sea."

(By the way, I suspect "oil war" is a term you conjured up for innuendo.)