I didn't read the article, but I assume in point 3 that they are speaking of the Treaty of Tripoli. This was a part of a group of treaties, which had to do with (coincidentally) pirates, specifically the Barbary Pirates. So this has been a problem for a long time. Here is the URL from Wikipedia about it. When I paste this in, there will be spaces inserted, so take those out of the address before trying to check it out, or just go to wikipedia and search for "Treaty of Tripoli". http://en.wikipedia.org/wik i/Treaty_of_Tripoli .

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by aidbo on 04/14/2009 01:49:39 PM EST