The Barbary Pirates and the Treaty of Tripoli

Submitted by JoeSettler (Israel), Jun 4, 2009 at 14:26

http://muqata.blogspot.com/2009/06/barbary-pirates.html

"know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America's story."

That would be the Barbary Islamic Pirates and the Treaty of Tripoli he mentioned.

And then there was the 2 Barbary Wars after Tripoli and Algiers breached the treaty.

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