Piracy Today #
April 23rd, 2008 | In Worth Knowing
This isn’t about stealing music or movies, but real pirates in real boats, stealing real property.
- The Economist has a chart of the number of recorded pirate attacks by geographic region. While Asia as a whole improved considerably, there were still 263 attacks in 2007.
- In a recent Op-Ed, John Burnett argued for harsher laws against pirates.
- Passport found a map (PDF) from the Operational Satellite Applications Program of the UN Institute for Training and Research that shows the location and nature of pirate attacks around Somalia.