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    What's Holder's position on legal rights for pirates?

    Iranian grain ship seized as Somali pirates hold world to ransom
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5183710.ece

    Operations undertaken by the coalition fleet are fraught with legal difficulties, ranging from restrictive rules of engagement to rights of habeas corpus, as the British Navy discovered when it detained eight pirates after a shootout last week.

    The Indian navy has since sunk a pirate mothership. I presume world condemnation is soon to follow. Heh.

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