To: weegee
Europe opted to pay "protection money" to the Barbary pirates instead of taking them down as well. It goes even further back than that. Hundreds of years earlier, the king of france paid off the Vikings so they would not sack akd loot paris.
7 posted on
05/02/2005 9:27:16 AM PDT by
rllngrk33
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To: rllngrk33
8 posted on
05/02/2005 9:28:28 AM PDT by
rllngrk33
(It's time to end life-time judicial tenure)
To: rllngrk33
weren't the barbery pirates called the musslmen? where they not muslims?
10 posted on
05/02/2005 9:34:01 AM PDT by
Khepera
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