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.

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