On Apr 11, 2009, at 9:16 AM, James Heartfield wrote:
> John Patch is an associate professor for strategic intelligence at
> the US Army War College and a retired Navy surface warfare officer
> and career intelligence officer. He's written an article - appearing
> on the US Naval Institute website - on Somali piracy. His comments
> are not to be taken as official US government policy.
>
> In an interview with VOA English to Africa Service reporter Joe De
> Capua, he says the Somali piracy problem may be overstated.
>
> http://www.voanews.com/english/Africa/2009-04-10-voa40.cfm
I think this is the guy we saw on the Maddow show the other week, who said that the Somali pirates are desperate people who used to be fishermen, but that commercial vessels have trawled their waters empty, so they turned to piracy to stay alive.
Doug