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WWW.samefacts.com - 12/9/2008
Pirates of the Arabian XI
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Everybody has sent warships to fight the Somali pirates: the United States, India, Russia, Malaysia and (now under the NATO and/or EU flags - I'm confused) France, Britain, Greece, and Germany, plus Italian planes. Why has this high-tech armada failed to deal with a handful of low-rent thugs ...
foreignpolicy.com - 12/3/2008
Europe vs. the Pirates
— foreignpolicy.com — J ust as the Barbary pirates hamstrung European monarchs in the early 19th century, their Somali counterparts... are proving maddeningly difficult to defeat today. This is a thorny problem, and an intriguing new European initiative may well fail to bring ... (more) Europe vs. the Pirates

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powerlineblog.com - 12/17/2008
Minnesota Senate recount, update XI
— powerlineblog.com — I understand that the Minnesota Supreme Court has accepted the Coleman campaign's petition for a hearing regarding... the issues raised by the Board of Canvassers' "recommendation" that Minnesota's 87 counties certain previoulsy rejected absentee ... (more) Minnesota Senate recount, update XI

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Lawyers, Guns and Money:  Crew of the MV Faina Getting Twitchy

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Crew of the MV Faina Getting Twitchy
Lawyers, Guns and Money — It's not nice to hold people hostage for two and a half months: "Some crew members on the Ukrainian ship are misbehaving," the pirate said. "They tried to harm two of our gunmen late Monday. This is unacceptable, they risk serious punitive measures. Somalis know how to live and how to die at the same time, but the Ukrainians' attempt to take violent action is misguided." He claimed that two of the pirates were taken by surprise when a group of crew members attacked them. "Maybe some of the crew are frustrated and we are feeling the same but our boys never opted for violence, this was a provocation," he told AFP by ...

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