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Bottom-Line Buccaneers Battle Piracy

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Oct 22, 2013
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The arrest last week by Indian police of a Sierra Leone-registered ship operated by the Virginia anti-piracy company AdvanFort, shines a spotlight on the dramatic proliferation of seagoing Blackwater-style private militias out to thwart Somali and other pirates for profit.

Protection is a fertile market, with “business opportunities,” as they are called,…

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