The use of overwhelming force by international navies could destroy those incentives and might even nudge some pirate elements toward cooperation with terrorists.
"What we're saying is if the Palestinians do change strategy, if they reject cooperation with terrorists, then we can go forward," an Israeli official said after the meeting.
But it would also send a message to other governments about the consequences of cooperation with terrorists.
He described the roots of Mr. bin Laden's enmity toward the United States for its role in Somalia, and the group's cooperation with other terrorist organizations, like the Iranian-backed Hezbollah.
Abol-Ghassem Salavati, judge of Tehran's 15th Branch of the Revolutionary Court, speaking to defendants: "You are charged with moharebeh through conscious, deliberate, and effective support, contact, and cooperation with the terrorist grouplet MEK [The Mujahedin-e Khalq]."[7].
The charges against him in Kosovo, he said, "will inevitably open up the issue of the Clinton administration's cooperation with the terrorists in Kosovo, including the bin Laden organization".
It is as if the SEC had just relaxed the capital rules, the Congress had mandated loans to poor people, or the Justice Department outlawed FBI cooperation with anti-terrorist agencies.
But he has given the Americans information about other unconventional weapons activities, they said, as well as information about Iraqi weapons cooperation with Syria, and with terrorist groups, including Al Qaeda.
In 2006 the Saudis threatened to end counter-terrorist cooperation with the UK unless the serious fraud office dropped its investigation into BAE Systems over the al-Yamamah arms deal.
The Saudi government subsequently persuaded the Blair government to stop a Serious Fruad Office inquiry into payments made in the Al-Yamamah deal, threatening to stop anti-terrorist cooperation with the UK if the investigation went ahead.
