It's time Obama apologizes to the Barbary Pirates
It's time Obama apologizes to the Barbary Pirates Lee Cary It’s about time President Obama apologizes for a former president’s meddling in the affairs of Morocco. From the 11th - 19th Centuries, the Barbary Pirates operated out of Tunis, Tripoli, Algiers, Sale and other ports in Morocco raiding mostly western European ships along that portion of the shores of North Africa called the Barbary Coast. From the 16th - 19th Centuries they also took hundreds of thousands of Europeans as slaves. The Barbary Pirates demanded tribute, and the European powers paid it. Back in 1785, John Adams, then America’s Ambassador...
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