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outsidethebeltway.com - 11/19/2008
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We’re beginning to see the future of piracy unfold in the seas south of the Horn of Africa. Somali pirates have captured an oil tanker belonging to Saudi ARAMCO:
JIDDA, Saudi Arabia: Pirates captured a Saudi-owned supertanker loaded with more than $100 million worth of crude oil off the ...
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 11/18/2008
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Very interesting New York Times article on new,
primarily internet-based outlets for investigative journalism, often supported in...
large part on a philanthropic basis. Clearly, this sort of thing, typified by both the local outfits the Times is ...
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The Future of the News
tigerhawk.blogspot.com - 11/22/2008
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Regular readers know that we have been complaining
loudly about the legal constraints on taking practical action...
against pirates. The West, at least, is so caught up in figure out what process is due to these barbaric thugs that it cannot come up with ...
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Piracy watch: The law as an excuse to do nothing
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 11/21/2008
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Excellent animated primer on the Somalia pirates issue:
Next, Peter Lehr makes the case for Somali pirates...
in The Guardian while Robert Farley offers the counter-counter-intuitive argument that piracy is bad. And to repeat ...
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Piracy in the Gulf of Aden
The Glittering Eye —
I’ve been posting up a storm lately on the increase in the operational tempo and value of the prizes seized by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden over at Outside the Beltway. Here are my most recent posts:
The Future of Piracy
More on the Threat of Piracy to the Oil Trade
Another Ship Seized
Also, you might want to take a look at other bloggers who’ve been covering the topic:
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