Re: Letters of marque

At 11:00 AM -0500 1/12/02, Glenn M Wilson wrote:
>
>Much as I hate to make the guys in DC look good - the maritime safety
>guys in NIMA (National Imagery and Mapping Agency aka known as "Not
>Interested in Maps Anymore) issue warnings about piracy regularly as
part
>of their maritime safety mission.  Wonder how difficult it would be to
>get that information to determine frequency, severity, etc.?  In the
last
>few months in the South Asia and, much more, in the SE Asia parts of
the
>BBC online there have been articles about piracy events (in port raids
>has been popular recently IIRC.)

And again, who are they bothering? What kind of pirates are they? 
What are they equipped with?

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