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I’m glad Danger Room covers this, but I thought putting “Arrr” in your headlines was old news by 2009. Oh well.

• Arrr! Pirates Take Up To $12 Billion Worth of Booty

Full size map here- it’s worth checking out if you like that sort of thing.

Here’s some recent piracy reports and a pdf showing all currently known pirated vessels. It accounts for 29 vessels and 699 hostages, but doesn’t include an unknown number of smaller craft and their crews.

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