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volokh.com - 5/19/2009
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As I discuss at length in The Invisible Hook, those pop-culture phenoms, the pirates of old, had a well-developed system of private law and order. Early 18th-century pirates created rules...
timesonline.co.uk - 5/23/2009
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Analysis: jihadis present risk to Britain | Youths
recruited in Whitechapel Up to a thousand foreign fighters,
including Britons, have answered the call to jihad in Somalia and are leading street-fighting Islamist extremists in the war-torn capital ...
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British and American fighters respond to jihad call in ...
pajamasmedia.com - 5/22/2009
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Hassan Mahmoud was already under fire for defense
of suicide bombings and the airport alcohol fatwa.
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Minneapolis Imam Decries ‘the Hell of Living in America’
volokh.com - 5/19/2009
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volokh.com —
Despite the surge in Somali piracy and encouragement
from some employees of the U.S. government, commercial ships
aren’t choosing to put armed guards on their vessels. And with good reason: given...
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To Live Outside the Law You Must Be Honest
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... "I was once caught taking a wallet from a hostage. I had to give it back and then 25,000 dollars were removed from my share of the ransom." The Somali pirates' "laws" are enforced by a "mobile tribunal," a kind of traveling pirate court, that oversees relations between the significant number of Somali "pirate cells" -- separate but coordinated bands of sea scoundrels that dot Somalia's coastline. Read the whole thing here.
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