althouse.blogspot.com - 11/29/2008
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"[T]he bureaucratic and legal hurdles facing international institutions and national governments have so far defeated most efforts to deal with the nimble crews of pirates in speedboats, whose tactics have grown bolder as their profits have paid for better weapons and equipment." Number of ...
foreignpolicy.com - 12/3/2008
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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 ...
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Europe vs. the Pirates
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Don't worry be happy
Wizbang —
... . They only seized 40 ships this year and got 25 million dollars in ransom for their work. You're right Congressman the US need not worry about Africa or what Somalian pirates do. All those ships containing coming out of the nearby Persian gulf aren't containing anything vital to the world economy.
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