Given the legal issues discussed in the previous entry, what do countries do when they capture pirates? Well, if you're Dutch, operating under a NATO flag, you let them go. Here, thanks to Jihad Watch, is what happened after NATO forces captured pirates that had tried to hijack a ship carrying small arms and rockets:
"Seven Somali pirates were detained, but they were soon released because 'NATO does not have any detainment policy,' [NATO commander] Fernandes said. The seven could not be arrested or held because they were seized by Dutch nationals and neither the pirates, the victims nor the ship were Dutch, he explained."
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