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Non-ironic Pirates!

4/20/2009

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Below is a photo of Abduhl Wali-i-Musi, the sole survivor of a group of Somali pirates who hijacked an American cargo ship earlier this month:
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He looks as if he just won a free trip to the U.S... oh wait.

Or maybe he's smiling because he found out his face is going to be on the front page of the New York Times... or that if he can convince a U.S. court of law that he's only 16, he will be tried as a juvenile and sentenced to time in a real American detention center... like in the movies... with air conditioning!!

Some background, piracy off the Somali coast has been kind of a big deal since the early 90s... about the same time that the Puerto Rican boy band, Menudo, broke up... hmm.
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And lately piracy has been BLOWING UP, especially along the Indian Ocean (it was pretty big in '03, but the Tsunami was kind of downer for the industry). Last week, Hillary Clinton announced that the U.S would modify our economic policies to discourage pirate activity by "cracking down on companies that do business with pirates." ... HC, did you know that Urban Outfitters does business with pirates?

Check out their Spring collection:
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