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Saturday, June 05, 2004
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Malaysia rejects the US desire to hunt terrorist networks targeting the straights of Malacca. [John Robb's Weblog]
It's nice to see another country standing up to the Feds. Note that the hypothetical threat of terrorists is insignificant compared to the very real threat of pirates, who have been a serious problem in the Malacca Strait for at least 600 years. The piracy problem is actually easy to solve, but unfortunately merchant ships suffer from a form of global gun-control that prevents their being armed. All it would take is a .50 machine gun or a rocket launcher on each merchant, but that will never happen because all the world's governments would rather see the crews murdered and their ships and cargo stolen rather than set the dangerous (for them) precendent of allowing civilians to defend themselves.
9:31:27 PM 
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Ken Hagler.
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