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To: LindyBill who wrote (245639)4/13/2008 1:33:20 PM
From: D. Long  Respond to of 793727
 

THE Royal Navy, once the scourge of brigands on the high seas, has been told by the Foreign Office not to detain pirates because doing so may breach their human rights


So much for piracy being a jus cogens - a "crime of crimes" that trumps all.