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[Mike Meredith]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:01:50 -0400, hike wrote:
> These were the Berber pirates.
> The Berbers ruled the southern Mediterranean.
> Most European paid a tribute/access fee/bribe not to be pirated.
> The USA was young and the Navy was new.
> They (Naval or Politicos or Administration) wanted to make a name for
> the USA.
> The USA Navy "swept the seas" and the Berbers relented.
> This gave all European fee-free passage of the southern Mediterranean
> becuase the USA Navy took care of the situation.
> Today Algeria is the area today's BerBers reside.

You might want to read some easily available history on the subject ...
it wasn't that simple. The US Navy weren't the first to try suppressing
the Barbary pirates and they weren't the last. The pirates were
effectively finished after France invaded the country in 1830.

The US also wasn't entirely innocent of paying danegeld either.

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