1.0 link 148481 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-thomson/a-solution-to-somalias-pi_b_148481.html If, like me, you regularly read the International Maritime Bureau's Weekly Piracy Report (a sort of naval police blotter), Sunday's news of the pirate speedboat attack on a cruise ship in the Gulf of Aden was no surprise. Over the past few years, there has been a seemingly exponential increase in piracy--the cruise ship incident was actually the third serious piratic effort off the shores of Somalia that day. What got my attention was that the cruise ship crew...

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