> 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.
Earlier I posted this interview with similarly sympathetic head of a private security [!] firm:
<http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/12/03/pirates/index.html>
-- Andy