*Thousands Of American Lawyers Will Feel Jealous* when they read this
story <http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0416/p06s01-wogn.html>.
With a new high seas run-in with pirates happening almost daily off
the eastern coast of Somalia, much of the world's attention is
turning to how best to capture and bring these marauders to justice.
But a German-led legal defense team is setting out to fight an
altogether different battle: how best to defend them.
A team of seven attorneys specializing in international criminal law
is taking up the cause of nine Somali pirates accused of hijacking
the MV Courier, a German freighter, on March 3 near the coast of Yemen.
It's just a guess, but I don't think these lawyers will help reduce
piracy, even in the long run.
- 5:45 AM, 16 April 2009
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