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Finesse, not force with pirates

by Rajesh Joshi — last modified Jun 25, 2009 04:19 PM

The hijack of Maersk Alabama has made it almost certain that some US-flag ships will carry firearms. The head of the company that operates Biscaglia, the first US-owned ship hijacked off Somalia, sees this as a bad idea –and a bad omen, writes Rajesh Joshi

  
Finesse, not force with pirates

Finesse, not force with pirates

JAMES Christodoulou carries the weight of personal experience when he speaks of being “almost evangelical” in drawing attention to piracy, yet he is almost as strongly opposed to the arming of merchant seafarers.
The chief executive of Connecticut-based Industrial...

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