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Last updated May 16, 2008 4:08 p.m. PT
Read This: 'Terror And Consent: The Wars For The Twenty-first Century'
Philip Bobbitt. Alfred A. Knopf. 672 pages. $35.
In current parlance, pirates were terrorists, because they sought to instill terror in innocent victims to further their own ends. But as Bobbitt points out, in the late 18th century, they were also quite different from the terrorists we now know. That style of terror was far different from the kind practiced by the 20th-century Irish Republican Army, which in turn was far different from the tactics of 21st-century al-Qaida.
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