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<div>Omar Bashiki wrote:</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>To constitute the crime of piracy, the
illegal acts must be committed for
private ends....acts otherwise
constituting piracy done for purely political motives,
as <span
></span> in the case of insurgents not recognized as
belligerents, are not piratical.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite>http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/pirates.htm</blockquote>
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<div>Mass murder is scarcely a "nonprivate" or "purely
political" act.
The <span
></span> motivation for the act of 11
September last, as proven by the
document <span
></span
> <span
></span> left behind by the
pirates, included<u><i> religious</i></u> elements and thus is
also <span
></span
> <span
></span> not
"purely" political. The preparation for the piratical
act
included <span
></span> international
travel, money transfer, and communication-- all
involving <span
></span>
spaces outside any national jurisdiction.</div>
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<div>Moreover, the only documents cited on the FAS page include:</div>
<div>"International law has long recognized a general duty of all
nations to<br>
cooperate in the repression of piracy. This traditional obligation
is<br>
included in the 1958 Geneva Convention on the High Seas and the 1982
LOS</div>
<div>Convention, both of which provide: "[A]ll States shall
cooperate to the</div>
<div>fullest possible extent in the repression of piracy on the high
seas or in</div>
<div>any other place outside the jurisdiction of any State."
If piracy could</div>
<div><i>by definition</i> only occur exclusively "on the high
seas or in</div>
<div>any other place outside the jurisdiction of any State" that
phrase would</div>
<div>be redundant and the sentence cited would have consisted only
of</div>
<div>"[A]ll States shall cooperate to the</div>
<div>fullest possible extent in the repression of piracy."</div>
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<div>Shane Mage</div>
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<div>Écrasez l'infâme!</div>
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