Ben Buckman.net

The NYT has an interesting video interview with a Somali pirate. He's under pressure from traditional power sources because piracy is seen as a source of drugs and social corruption. He'll stop being a pirate, he says, when the government lets his gang join an official Somali coast guard, to defend the waters against illegal fishing.

This jibes with what Global Guerillas wrote recently about these pirates: they have a legitimate grievance/cause in stopping foreign corporations from illegally fishing their waters; and the only solution that will work is arming anti-pirate militias (aka a "Coast Guard"), similar to the Awakening in Iraq.