MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
By Geoffrey York, The Globe and Mail, December 28, 2010
It's been another lucrative week for the barefoot buccaneers of Somalia. First they collected a $5.5-million ransom payment for a German-owned chemical tanker. Then, a day later, they hijacked another European cargo vessel, adding its eight crew members to their growing hoard of hostages.....