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The commando-style attacks that killed some 200 people in Mumbai, India, last week began with a small-scale amphibious invasion that bears uncanny resemblance to recent pirate attacks off the African coast.It appears that the terrorists seized a fishing trawler, killed its captain, and used it as a mothership to launch the small rubber boats that conveyed them to Mumbai. While there's no reason to think that there's an ideological connection between pirates and terrorists, it's not at all surprising to see terrorists adopt pirate tactics.
--Robert Farley
